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iv hen you have really lived, are the moments 
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Thoughts 



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Mabie's M Before My Library Fire," " In the Forest of 
Arden," and other publications); Little, Brown and Company 
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Copyrighted, 1901, 

by 

JESSIE K. FREEMAN and SARAH S. B. YULE. 



The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant 
thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many 
of them as possible. —Bovee. 



To get peace, if you do want it, make for yourselves 
nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for 
none of us has been taught in early youth, what fairy 
palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts — proof 
against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied mem- 
ories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses 
of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot 
disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away 
from us — houses built without hands for our souls to 
live in. —Ruskin. 





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longer far-ward nor behind 

I look in hope or fear ,• 
But grateful, take the good I find, 

The best of noiv and here. 



Thoughts 



I saw the mountains stand 
Silent, wonderful, and grand, 
Looking out across the land 
When the golden light was falling 
On distant dome and spire ; 
And I heard a low voice calling, 
"Come up higher, come up higher, 
From the lowland and the mire, 
From the mist of earth desire, 
From the vain pursuit of pelf, 
From the attitude of self; 
Come up higher, come up higher." 

— James G. Clarke. 



io Thoughts 



The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury 
of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and 
waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellec- 
tual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckon- 
ing. — Gladstone. 

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a 
time. Some people bear three — all they have had, 
all they have now, and all they expect to have. 

— Edward Everett Hale. 

Age is opportunity no less 

Than youth itself, though in another dress; 
And as the evening twilight fades away 

The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. 

— Longfellow. 

If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, 
that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. 

— R. Cecil. 

The great thing in the world is not so much where 
we stand, as in what direction we are moving. 

— Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

In nature there is no blemish but the mind; — none 
can be called deformed but the unkind. 

— Shakespeare. 



Thoughts ii 



"You never can tell what your thoughts will do, 

In bringing you hate or love ; 
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings 

Are swifter than carrier doves. 
They follow the law of the universe, — 

Each thing must create its kind ; 
And they speed o'er the track to bring you back 

Whatever went out from your mind. ,, 



12 Thoughts 

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou 
knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will already 
have become clearer. —Carlyle. 

We need a revival of the individual. The question 
is not, What are they doing ? — but, What am I doing ? 
Not, Why do you not do this, that, or the other? — 
but, Why am not I doing this, that, or the other? 

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 

That man is blessed who every day is permitted to 
behold anything so pure and serene as the western 
sky at sunset, while revolutions vex the world. 

— Henry D. Thoreau. 

There's life alone in duty done, 

And rest alone in striving. —Whittier. 

It is a matter of economy to be happy, to view life 
and all its conditions from the brightest angle; it en- 
ables one to seize life at its very best. It expands 
the soul. — H. W. Dresser. 

To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out 
of himself, and to come into loving contact with 
others. — James Freeman Clarke. 

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with 
your loftiest thought. —Henry D. Thoreau. 



Thoughts 13 



This question then is ours — are we doing our part 
in the growth of the race? In the current of life are 
we moving forward? Do our years mark milestones 
in humanity's struggle towards perfection? Is the 
God within us so much more unrolled, when our de- 
velopment has reached its highest point? Can we 
transmit to our children a better heritage of brain and 
soul than our fathers left to us ? Has the race through 
us gained some little in the direction of the law of 
love? If we have done our part in this struggle our 
lives have not been in vain. —David Starr Jordan. 



14 Thoughts 

Virgil said of the winning crew in his boat-race, 
"They can, because they believe they can." 

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the mis- 
fortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. 

— Lowell. 

To be wise we must first learn to be happy: for 
those who can finally issue forth from self by the por- 
tal of happiness, know infinitely wider freedom than 
those who pass through the gate of sadness. 

— Maurice Materlinck. 

When we humor our weaknesses they force them- 
selves continually upon our attention, like spoiled chil- 
dren. When we assert our mastery of ourselves and 
compel its recognition, we stand secure in our sov- 
ereign rights. — Chas. B. New comb. 

Put away all sarcasm from your speech. Never 
complain. Do not prophesy evil. Have a good word 
for everyone, or else keep silent. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds, 
You can't do that way when you're flying words. 
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead, 
But God himself can't stop them when they're said. 

—Will Carleton. 



Thoughts 15 

Mould conditions aright, and men will grow good 
to fit them. — Horace Fletcher. 

Pride 
Is littleness; he who feels contempt 
For any living thing hath faculties 
Which he has never used. —Wordsworth. 

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. 
Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, 
but what they intended. —Henry D. Thoreau. 

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considera- 
tions, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, 
give a greater charm to the character than the display 
of great talent and accomplishments. —Kelty. 

I believe that the mind can be profaned by the habit 
of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts 
shall be tinged with triviality. —Henry D. Thoreau. 

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do 
not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. 
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. 

— Emerson. 

No good thing is failure and no evil thing success. 
— W . C. Gannett's favorite proverb. 



16 Thoughts 



Wisdom is knowing what to do next ; 

Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. 
— David Starr Jordan. 

Always laugh when you can ; it is a cheap medicine. 
Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is 
the sunny side of existence. —Byron. 

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass 
our doors, we are at least responsible for those we ad- 
mit and entertain. Charles B. Newcomb. 

Not for the crying, 

Not for the loud beseeching 

Will peace draw near. 
Rest with palms folded, 
Rest with thine eyelids fallen, 

Lo! peace is here. — E. R. Sill. 

Would you remain always young, and would you 
carry all joy and buoyancy of youth into your maturer 
years? Then have care concerning but one thing — 
how you live in your thought world. 

— R. W. Trine. 




PHILLIPS BROOKS 



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H do not pray for easy lives. Pray to 
be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal 
to your poivers. Pray for poivers equal 
your tasks! 



Thoughts 17 



Lord, for to-morrow and its needs 

I do not pray, 
Help me from stain of sin 

Just for to-day. 

Let me both diligently work 

And duly pray, 
Let me be kind in word and deed 

Just for to-day. 

Let me be slow to do my will, 

Prompt to obey, 
Help me to sacrifice myself 

Just for to-day. 

Let me no wrong or idle word 

Unthinking say, 
Put Thou Thy seal upon my lips 

Just for to-day. 

So for to-morrow and its needs 
I do not pray, 
But keep me, guide me, hold me, Lord, 

Just for to-day. — Canon Farrar. 



18 Thoughts 



To live in love is to live an everlasting youth. Who- 
ever enters old age by this royal road will find the 
last of life to be the very best of life. Instead of 
finding himself descending the hills of life, he will 
find it up-hill all the way, into clearer air. There the 
vision reaches further ; here the sunsets are more gol- 
den and the twilight lasts longer. 

— Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. 



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Thoughts 19 

Those who live on the mountain have a longer day 
than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we 
need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher. 

— Rev. S. J. Barrows. 

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, en- 
ergetic character, and conscientious observance of 
duty. — James Russell Lowell. 

The highest compact we can make with our fellow 
is, let there be truth between us two forevermore. 

— Emerson. 

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is 
an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow 
a person's money as his time. —Horace Mann. 

All service ranks the same with God — 
There is no last nor first. —Browning. 

Logic makes only one demand, that of conscience. 
But life makes a thousand. The body wants health; 
the imagination cries out for beauty; and the heart 
for love. Pride asks for consideration; the soul 
yearns for peace; the conscience for holiness; our 
whole being is athirst for happiness and for perfec- 
tion. — Amiel. 



20 Thoughts 

What if it does look like rain, it is fine now ! 

— William Smith. 

Was there ever a wiser or more loving conspiracy 
than that which keeps the venerable figure of Santa 
Claus from slipping away, with all the other old-time 
myths, into the forsaken wonderland of the past? 
— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

Mankind are always happier for having been happy. 
So that if you make them happy now, you make them 
happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. 

— "Sydney Smith. 

Never fancy you could be something if only you had 
a different lot and sphere assigned you. The very 
things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or 
obstructions, are probably what you most want. What 
you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are 
probably God's opportunities. —Horace Bushnell. 

Who may not strive, may yet fulfil 

The harder task of standing still, 

And good but wished, with God is done. 

—Whittier. 

Happiness and the sense of victory are only for 
those who live for conscience and duty and the soul's 
higher ideals. —Newell Dwight Hillis. 



Thoughts 21 



"Try this for one day: — Think as though your 
thoughts were visible to all about you." 



22 Thoughts 

The world turns aside to let any man pass who 
knows whither he is going. —David Starr Jordan. 

Beware lest thy friend learn to tolerate one frailty 
of thine, and so an obstacle be raised to the progress 
of thy love. —Thoreau. 

As soon as a stranger is introduced into any com- 
pany, one of the first questions which all wish to have 
answered, is, How does that man get his living? And 
with reason; every man is a consumer, and ought to 
be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the 
world unless he not only pays his debts but also adds 
something to the common wealth. — Emerson. 

All impatience disturbs the circulation, scatters 
force, makes concentration difficult if not impossible. 

— C. B. Newcomb. 

When the sun of joy is hidden 

And the sky is overcast, 
Just remember light is coming 

And a storm can never last. 

— 7. B. Smiley. 

There is no music in a rest, that I know of, but 
there is the making of music in it. —"Ruskin. 



Thoughts 23 



Our lives are songs; 

God writes the words, 
And we set them to music at leisure : 
And the song is sad, or the song is glad 
As we choose to fashion the measure. 

We must write the song, 

Whatever the words, 
Whatever its rhyme, or meter ; 
And if it is sad, we must make it glad, 
And if sweet, we must make it sweeter. 

— Gibbon. 

For what you find in these sweet days, 
Depends on how you go about it ; 

A glad heart helps poor eyes to see, 
What brightest eyes can't see without it. 

One child sees sunlit air and sky 

And bursting leaf buds, round and ruddy ; 
Another looks at his own feet, 

And only sees that it is muddy ! 

— Henrietta R. Eliot. 



24 Thoughts 



The work of the world is done by few ; 
God asks that a part be done by you. 

— Sarah K. Bolton. 

This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of 
freedom, and government of the people, by the people, 
for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because 
we have within us the beginning and the possibility 
of it. — Phillips Brooks. 

Earth's crammed with heaven, 

And every common bush afire with God. 

— E. B. Browning. 

Thoughts are forces: through their instrumentality 
we have in our grasp, and as our rightful heritage, 
the power of making life and all its manifold condi- 
tions exactly what we will. —R. W. Trine. 

People seem not to see that their opinion of the 
world is also a confession of character. —Emerson. 




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HE understanding is the vestibule of the 

m mind ! Uncover thy head, and enter 

-A- the temple of the soul ! behold the 

power, the beauty, and the love ! If 

•we had nothing but understanding hoiv little 

should ive knoiv or think or feel ! 

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Thoughts 25 



Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are 
they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their 
cheer. —Henry Ward Beecher. 

The time will come when the civilized man will feel 
that the rights of every living creature on the earth 
are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this can- 
not be perfect civilization. —David Starr Jordan. 

Search thine own heart. What paineth thee 

In others, in thyself may be; 
All dust is frail, all flesh is weak ; 

Be thou the true man thou dost seek. 

— Whittier. 

Beware of despairing about yourself. 

— St. Augustine., 

If you were born to honor, show it now : 
If put upon you, make the judgment good 
That thought you worthy of it. —Shakespeare. 

Then a voice within his breast 
Whispered, audible and clear: 
"Do thy duty ; that is best ; 
Leave unto the Lord the rest !" 

— Longfellow. 



26 



Thoughts 



"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, 
There are souls that are pure and true ; 
Then give to the world the best you have, 
And the best will come to you. 
Give love, and love to your heart will flow, 
A strength in your utmost need ; 
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
Their faith in your word and deed." 



Thoughts 27 



Fortune will call at the smiling gate. 

— Japanese Proverb. 

"Talk health ; the dreary never-ending tale 

Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. 

You cannot charm or interest or please 

By harping on that minor chord, disease. 

Say you are well, or all is well with you 

And God shall hear your words and make them true." 

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not 
only a present evil, but that you have increased a 
habit. —Epictetus. 

How true it is that what we really see day by day 
depends less on the objects and scenes before our eyes 
than on the eyes themselves and the minds and hearts 
that use them. —F. D. Huntington. 

You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have 
fulfilled that of being pleasant. - —Charles Buxton. 

If I am not for myself who will be for me? But if 
I am for myself alone what am I ? If not now — when ? 

—Hillel 



28 Thoughts 



I asked the New Year for some motto sweet, 
Some rule of life by which to guide my feet ; 
I asked and paused. It answered, soft and low : 

"God's will to know." 
"Will knowledge then suffice, New Year?" I cried; 
But ere the question into silence died, 
The answer came : "Nay ; this remember, too, 

God's will to do." 
"To know ; to do ; can this be all we give 
To Him in Whom we are, and move and live ? 
No more, New Year ?" "This, too, must be your care : 

God's will to bear." 
Once more I asked : "Is there still more to tell ?" 
And once again the answer sweetly fell ; 
"Yea, this one thing, all other things above, 

God's will to love." 

— J. M. C. Bouchard, S. J. 



Thoughts 29 

Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to 
the most brilliant metals. —-Voltaire. 

Few men suspect how much mere talk fritters away 
spiritual energy — that which should be spent in action, 
spends itself in words. Hence he who restrains that 
love of talk lays up a fund of spiritual strength. 

— F. W. Robertson. 

Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal ex- 
cellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is recti- 
tude, truth in action, and shines through every word 
and deed. —Samuel Smiles. 

The cry of the age is more for fraternity than for 
charity. If one exists, the other will follow, or better 
still, will not be needed. —Dr. Henry D. Chapin. 

There is philosophy as well as philanthropy in the 
keeping in touch with all sweetness and love, in the 
being swift to be kind. This is living on the spiritual 
plane, and spirituality is power. —Lilian Whiting. 

Manners are the happy ways of doing things. If 
they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give 
such a depth to the morning meadows . —Emerson. 

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, 
Let us be merciful as well as just. 

— Longfellow. 



30 Thoughts 



2 ' "The man who never makes mistakes loses a great 
many chances to learn something." 

Why should a true and sincere appreciation be 
termed flattery, and degraded to the level of insincere 
praise? Why should an individual be accused of act- 
ing from base and selfish policy because he feels the 
glow and warmth of social response ? 

— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

Our power over others lies not so much in the 
amount of thought within us as in the power of bring- 
ing it out. — W. E. Channing. 

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to 
look through each other's eyes for an instant? 

— Thoreau. 



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Why should we wear black for the guests of God ? 

— Ruskin. 

I always seek the good that is in people and leave 
the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how 
to round off the corners. —Goethe's Mother. 

I am not concerned that I have no place, 

I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. 

I am not concerned that I am not known, 

I seek to be worthy to be known. —Confucius. 



Thoughts 31 

\| The sunrise never failed us yet. —Celia Thaxter. 

Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative prop- 
ositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmations. Don't 
waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the 
bad, but chant the beauty of the good. —Emerson. 

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone 
when one keeps house for one's own comfort, and 
not for the comfort of one's neighbors. 

— Dinah Maria Muloch. 

Culture is not an accident of birth, although our 
surroundings advance or retard it ; it is always a matter 
of individual education. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

No man need hunt for his mission. His mission 
comes to him. It is not above, it is not below, it is 
not far — not to make happy human faces now and 
then among the children of misery, but to keep happy 
human faces about us all the time. 

— /. F. W. Ware. 

\ God's best gift to us is not things, but opportunities. 

— Alice W. Rollins. 

Whoever will prosper in any line of life must save 
his own time and do his own thinking. He must spend 
neither time nor money which he has not earned. 

— David Starr Jordan. 



32 Thoughts 



I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber your- 
self and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this 
woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-cham- 
ber made ready at too great a cost. These things 
they can get for a dollar at any village. But let 
this stranger, if he will, in your looks, in your ac- 
cent, and behavior, read your heart and earnestness, 
your thought and will, which he cannot but at any 
price in any village or city, and which he may well 
travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in 
order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread 
and let the bed be dressed for the traveler ; but let not 
the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. Honor 
to the house where they are simple to the verge of 
hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads 
the laws of the Universe. 

— Emerson. 




JOHN VANCE CHENEY 



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HE happiest heart that ever beat 

Was in some quiet breast, 
That found the common daylight siveet, 

And left to heaven the rest. 



Thoughts 33 

The secret of the joy of living is the proper appre- 
ciation of what we actually possess." 

So then believe that every bird that sings, 
And every flower that stars the elastic sod, 

And every thought the happy summer brings 
To the pure spirit is a word of God. 

— Coleridge. 

Thrust an Emerson into any Concord, and his pun- 
gent presence will penetrate the entire region. Soon 
all who come within the radius of his life respond to 
his presence as flowers and trees respond with boughs, 
brilliant and fragrant, to the sunshine. After a little, 
each Emerson stands girt about with Hawthornes, 
Whittiers, Holmeses and Lowells. 

— Newell Dwight Hillis. 

Make it your habit not to be critical about small 
things. —Edward Everett Hale. 

The nobler life is just as possible to us all as that 
which is ignoble. The moment one will assert his 
freedom from petty cares, perplexities, troubles, and 
anxieties, that moment they fall off of themselves. 
— A Study of Mrs. Browning, Lilian Whiting. 

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how 
to be silent even though he knows he is in the right. 

— Cato. 



34 Thoughts 



Ah! let us hope that to our praise 

Good God not only reckons 
The moments when we tread His ways, 

But when the spirit beckons — 
That some slight good is also wrought 

Beyond self-satisfaction, 
When we are simply good in thought, 

Howe'er we fail in action. —Lowell. 



Thoughts 35 



We need only obey. There is guidance for each of 
us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. 

— Emerson. 

When a man has not a good reason for doing a 
thing, he has one reason for letting it alone. 

— Sir Walter Scott. 

Pure religion as taught by Jesus Christ is a life, 
a growth, a divine spirit within, coming out in love 
and sympathy and helpfulness to our fellow-men. 

—Dr. H. W. Thomas. 

Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why 
you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. 
Do not, in such a matter as life, build on opinion 
or custom, or what you guess is true. Make it a mat- 
ter of certainty and science. —Thomas Starr King. 

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its re- 
moval; whereas, it was its continuance which should 
have taught us its value. —Hannah More. 

The soul occupied with great ideas, best performs 
small duties. —fames Martineau. 



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Christianity wants nothing so much in the world 
as sunny people, and the old are hungrier for love 
than for bread. The Oil of Joy is very cheap, and if 
you can help the poor with a Garment of Praise, it will 
be better for them than blankets. —Drummond. 

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to 
choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your 
faults, still less of others' faults. In every person 
who comes near you look for what is good and strong ; 
honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imi- 
tate it ; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, 
when their time comes. — Ruskin. 

When you hold persistently to the successful mental 
state, you become a magnet drawing other people to 
aid you as you in return can aid them. But if you are 
much of the time despondent and gloomy, you be- 
come the negative magnet driving the best from you. 

— Prentice Mulford. 

There are two days about which nobody should 
ever worry, and these are yesterday and to-morrow. 

— Robert J. Burdette. 

A child, however educated, is still untaught if by 
his teaching we have not emphasized his individual 
character, if we have not strengthened his will and 
its guide and guardian, the mind. 

—David Starr Jordan. 



Thoughts 37 



T am only a child who is lying 
On the bosom of Infinite Love. 

I speak not of living or dying ; 

I know not of sorrow or crying ; 
My thoughts are dwelling above. 

"The spring of the life that is flowing 

Is hidden with Christ in God. 
Not yet the mystery knowing, 
I feel that the peace is growing, 
As a river grows deep and broad. 

"All I need without price I am buying 
By my trust in the Goodness above. 

There's an end to my yearning and sighing, 

For just like a child I am lying 
On the bosom of Infinite Love." 



38 Thoughts 



The optimist, by his superior wisdom and insight, 
is making his own heaven, and in the degree that he 
makes his own heaven, is he helping to make one for 
all the world beside. — R. W. Trine. 

Do not let your head run upon that which is none 
of your own, but pick out some of the best of your 
circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would 
wish for them, were they not in your possession. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

Insist on your self; never imitate. There is at this 
moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that 
of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or the pen of Moses 
or Dante, but different from these. If you can hear 
what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to 
them in the same pitch of voice. —Emerson. 

Just because there's fallen 
A snow-flake on his forehead, 

He must go and fancy 

'Tis winter all the year ! —Aldrich. 

> How poor they are that have not patience. 

— Shakespeare. 

O God, animate us to cheerfulness ! May we have 
a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the 
bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpet- 
ual contentedness. — W. E. Channing. 



Thoughts 39 



Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes 
After its own self-working. A child's kiss 
Set on the sighing lips shall make thee glad ; 
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich ; 
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong ; 
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
Of service which thou renderest. 

— E. B. Browning. 

"Then take this honey for the bitterest cup ; 
There is no failure, save in giving up ; 
No real fall so long as one still tries, 
For seeming setbacks make the strong man wise. 
There's no defeat, in truth, save from within ; 
Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win." 

A crowd of troubles passed him by 

As he with courage waited ; 
He said, "Where do you troubles fly 

When you are thus belated ?" 
"We go," they say, "to those who mope, 

Who look on life dejected, 
Who weakly say 'good-bye' to hope, 

We go where we're expected." 

— Francis J. Allison. 



4o Thoughts 

"Bring me men to match my mountains, 
Bring me men to match my plains ; 
Men with empires in their purpose 
And new eras in their brains." 

"Who will remember that skies are gray 
If he carries a happy heart all day ?" 

A man is specially and divinely fortunate, not when 
his conditions are easy, but when they evoke the very 
best that is in him; when they provoke him to noble- 
ness, and sting him to strength, when they clear his 
vision, kindle his enthusiasm and inspire his will. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will 
be the expression of it. — Balzac. 

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his 
friend. If he knows I am happy in loving him, he 
will want no other reward. — H. D. Thoreau. 

"Live blameless ; God is near." 
— Inscribed over the door of the house of Linnceus, at Harn*- 
merby, Sweden. 

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charm- 
ing human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and 
woods and clear brooks. —George Eliot. 




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Thoughts 41 

Do not discharge in haste the arrow which can 
never return: it is easy to destroy happiness; most 
difficult to restore it. —Herder. 

Disappointment should always be taken as a stim- 
ulant, and never viewed as a discouragement. 

— C. B. Newcomb. 

In all the crowded Universe 
There is but one stupendous word : Love. 
There is no tree that rears its crest, 
No fern or flower that cleaves the sod 
Nor bird that sings above its nest, 
But tries to speak this word of God. 

-*/. G. Holland. 

He who has a thousand friends has not one friend to 

spare, 
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. 

— From the Arabic. 

It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, 
which is possible, but to try instead to escape from 
other people's faults, which is impossible. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

"To persuade one soul to lead a better life is to 
leave the world better than you found it." 



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Thoughts 



If you intend to be happy, don't be foolish enough 
to wait for a just cause. —Chap-Book. 



Thoughts 43 



Don't borrow a creed from other people, 
Nor hang most faith on the stoutest steeple. 
Look up for your law, but oh ! look higher 
Than the hands on any human spire. 
If ten think alike, and you think alone, 
That never proves 'tis ten to one 
They are right, you wrong ; for truth, you see, 
Is not a thing of majority. 
It never can make you false, them true, 
That there's more of them than there is of you : 
If your touch is on Truth's garment's hem, 
There is more of you than a world of them. 
'Tis not alone in the Orient region 
That a certain hero's name is Legion. 
Nor was it only for once to be 
That the whole herd together ran down to the sea. 

Your zenith for no man else is true : 
Your beam from the sun comes alone to you. 
And the thought the great God gave your brain 
Is your own for the world, or the world's in vain. 

— Edward Rowland Sill. 



44 Thoughts 

Discontent is want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of 
will. — Emerson. 

"He that brings sunshine into the lives of others 
cannot keep it from himself." 

Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work ! 
Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of 
those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullen- 
ness. He does more in the same time — he will do it 
better — he will persevere longer. —Carlyle. 

Set about what thou intendest to do : the beginning 
is half the battle. — Cesar. 

By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house 
of Never. —Cervantes. 

No wind serves him who has no destined port. 

— Montaigne. 

Be sure you give men the best of your wares though 
they be poor enough; and the gods will help you to 
lay by a better store for the future. 

— Henry D. Thoreau. 

Reading is indeed to the mind as food is to the 
body — the material of which its fibre is made. It is 
surprising to note the difference in the quality of 
mental thought which even one-half hour's good read- 
ing each day will make. —Lilian Whiting. 



Thoughts 45 



Men are four: 
He who knows, and knows he knows, — 

He is wise — follow him. 
He who knows, and knows not he knows, — 

He is asleep — wake him : — 
He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, — 

He is a fool — shun him. 
He who knows not, and knows he knows not, — 

He is a child — teach him. 

— Arabian Proverb. 



46 Thoughts 

Cherish ideals as the traveler cherishes the north 
star, and keep the guiding light pure and bright and 
high above the horizon. —Newell Dwight Hillis. 

The days come and go like muffled and veiled fig- 
ures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say 
nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, 
they carry them as silently away. —Emerson. 

'Tis not in seeking, 

'Tis not in endless striving, 

Thy quest is found. 
Be still and listen, 
Be still and drink the quiet 

Of all around. _£. R. Sill 

To keep one's foot firmly set in the way that leads 
upwards, however dark and thorny it may be at the 
moment, is to conquer. 

— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

And daily, hourly, loving and giving 
In the poorest life makes heavenly living. 

— Rose Terry Cooke. 

To love is the great glory, the last culture, the 
highest happiness ; to be loved is little in comparison. 
— The Story of William and Lucy Smith, George S. Meriman. 



Thoughts 47 

To persevere in one's duty, and to be silent, is the 
best answer to calumny. —Washington. 

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is 
never to allow your energies to stagnate. 

— Adam Clarke. 

Entertaining is the finest of all the fine arts, and it 
cannot be done by proxy. It cannot be done by the 
cook, nor yet by the decorator. Let the hostess give 
her guests her personal interest, her sympathetic com- 
prehension, and she will have then mastered the deli- 
cate and subtle art. —Lilian Whiting. 

Read the best books first, or you may not have a 
chance to read them at all. —Henry D. Thoreau. 

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public serv- 
ant to all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that 
there is a good will and intelligence at the heart of 
things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings. 

— Emerson. 

Be noble, and the nobleness that lies 
In other men, sleeping, but never dead, 
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; 
Then shalt thou see it gleam in many eyes, 
Then will pure light about thy way be shed. 

— Lowell. 



48 Thoughts 

Few causes age the body faster than wilful indo- 
lence and monotony of mind — the mind, that very- 
principle of physical youthfulness. 

— James Lane Allen. 

"To speak wisely may not always be easy, but not 
to speak ill requires only silence." 

If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you 
have a headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder 
stroke, I beseech you by all the angels to hold your 
peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the 
housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by 
corruptions and groans. —Emerson. 

" 'Downward the path of life !' Oh, no ! 
Up, up, with patient steps, I go ; 
I watch the skies fast brightening there ; 
I breathe a sweeter, purer air." 

Happiness rarely is absent. It is we that know not 
of its presence. The greatest felicity avails us noth- 
ing if we know not that we are happy. 

— Maurice Materlinck. 

There is no good in life but love — but love ! 

What else looks good, is some shade flung from love ; 

Love gilds it, gives it worth. —Robert Browning. 




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Instead of a gem, or even a flower, cast the gift of a 
lovely thought into the heart of a friend. 

— Geo. Macdonald. 



50 Thoughts 

Be satisfied with nothing but your best. 

— Edward Rowland Sill. 

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to 
any influence that will bring upon you any noble 
feeling. —Ruskin. 

Thank God every morning when you get up that 
you have something to do that day, which must be 
done whether you like it or not. Being forced to 
work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you 
. . . a hundred virtues which the idle never know. 

— Charles Kingsley. 

Foresight is very wise, but foresorrow is very fool- 
ish ; and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons 
in the air. Sir John Lubbock. 

It requires a sterner virtue than good nature to 
hold fast the truth, that it is nobler to be shabby and 
honest, than to do things handsomely in debt. 

— Juliana H. Ewing. 

"Drop the subject when you cannot agree; there is 
no need to be bitter because you know you are right." 

It is not only a part of the wisdom of happiness, 
but it is absolutely essential to the conditions of any 
true work in the world, to so live that one may not be 
too greatly affected by the attitude of other people. A 
man's life is, after all, primarily between God and 
himself - -Lilian Whiting. 



Thoughts 51 

Get your distaff ready, and God will send you flax. 
— Mary A. Livermore's favorite proverb. 

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it 
were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most val- 
uable we have, and therefore should be secured, be- 
cause they seldom return again. —Locke. 

The little worries that we meet each day 
May be as stumbling-blocks across our way, 
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be 
Of grace, O Lord, to Thee ! —A. E. Hamilton. 

A man's own good breeding is the best security 
against other people's ill manners. —Chesterfield. 

The best teacher of duties that still lie near to us, is 
the practice of those we see and have at hand. 

— Carlyle. 

"The secret of a sweet and Christian life is learn- 
ing to live by the day. It is the long stretches that 
tire us." 

To one who is in the role of host there can be no 
more bitter rebuke than to have any guest or chance 
caller go out from the portals with the feeling that he 
is sorry he came — that he is depressed rather than up- 
lifted. For all personal association, whether perma- 
nent or transient, whether prearranged or a matter of 
accidental contact, should leave behind it a lingering 
charm, a deeper sense of the loveliness of life. 

— Lilian Whiting. 



52 Thoughts 



One of the natural tendencies of the mortal mind is 
toward proselyting. The moment we believe some- 
thing to be true, we begin to try to convert others to 
our belief. We learn to say, with some degree of real- 
ization, "God worketh in me to will and to do of His 
good pleasure," but we quite forget that the same God 
is working equally in our brother "to will and to do." 
"I am the door," says the Christ within every man's 
own soul. Now you are trying to have your dear one 
enter in through your door. He must enter in through 
his own Christ, his own desire. 

— H. Emilie Cady. 



Thoughts 53 



You may not be able to leave your children a great 
inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats 
for them which they will wear through all eternity. 

— T. L. Cuyler. 

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge 
over which he must pass himself; for every man has 
need to be forgiven. —Lord Herbert. 

We exhaust our strength in our impatience at our 
work, and the conditions that surround us. There is 
nothing that comes to us which we could not do easily 
with true adjustment, but we waste our forces in our 
worries. — C. B. Newcomb. 

It seems as if heroes had done almost all for the 
world that they can do ; and not much more can come 
until common men awake and take their common 
tasks. I believe the common man's task is the hardest. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

When we climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds of love 
to men. —Whittier. 

When you find a person a little better than his word, 
a little more liberal than his promise, a little more than 
borne out in his statements by facts, a little larger 
in deed than in speech, you recognize a kind of elo- 
quence in that person's utterance not laid down in 
Blair or Campbell. —Holmes. 



54 Thoughts 

Young man! let the nobleness of your mind impel 
you to its improvement. You are too strong to be 
defeated, save by yourself. —W. D. Howard. 

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense 
we are. — Anna Jameson. 

The mark of the man of the world is absence of 
pretension. He does not make a speech, he takes a 
low business tone, avoids all brag, promises not at all, 
performs much. He calls his employment by its low- 
est names, and so takes from evil tongues their sharp- 
est weapon. — Emerson. 

"In judging others, weigh carefully the method 
against the motive. If the latter be pure, be patient 
and charitable, however different from your own the 
method may be." 

"Refuse to regard as unfortunate the treatment you 
receive from others; let it stimulate you to deal more 
justly with yourself and with them." 

The strength of affection is a proof not of the worthi- 
ness of the object, but of the largeness of the soul 
which loves. —F. W. Robertson. 

Every flower is a hint of His beauty; every grain 
of wheat a token of His beneficence; every atom of 
dust, a revelation of His power. In and through all 
things He is attracting our regard. —Furness. 



Thoughts 55 

One never speaks of himself except at a loss. 

— Montaigne. 

It is easy in the world, to live after the world's 
opinion: it is easy in solitude, to live after our own. 
But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd 
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of soli- 
tude. — Emerson. 

If you knew the light 
That your soul casts in my sight, 

How I look to you 

For the good and true, 
The beauteous and the right. 

— Robert Browning. 

Manners impress as they indicate real power. A 
man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and con- 
tented expression, which everybody reads. And you 
cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except 
by making him the kind of man of whom that manner 
is the natural expression. Nature forever puts a pre- 
mium on reality. —Emerson. 

Who looks to Heaven alone to save his soul 
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal : 
But he who walks in love may wander far, 
And God will bring him where the blessed are. 

— Henry Van Dyke. 



56 Thoughts 



"If you and I — just you and I — 
Should laugh instead of worry ; 
If we should grow — just you and I — 
Kinder and sweeter hearted, 
Perhaps in some near by and by 
A good time might get started ; 
Then what a happy world 'twould be 
For you and me — for you and n?e !" 

Let nothing disturb thee, 
Nothing affright thee; 
All things are passing; 
God never changeth; 
Patient endurance 
Attaineth to all things; 
Who God possesseth 
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The world is full of judgment-days, and in every 
assembly that a man enters, in every action he at- 
tempts, he is gauged and stamped. A man passes for 
what he is worth. —Emerson. 

Life is noble in proportion to the nobleness of faith ; 
it is successful in proportion to the fixedness of faith. 

— Joseph Le Conte. 

We should tell ourselves once for all that it is the 
first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, in- 
dependent, and great as lies in its power. 

— Maurice Materlinck. 

"Cold and reserved natures should remember that 
though not infrequently flowers may be found be- 
neath the snow, it is chilly work to dig for them, and 
few care to take the trouble." 

Whenever we send out loving thought in generous 
profusion, every part of our environment echoes back 
a sweet benediction. —Henry Wood. 

A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that 
leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If 
when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old 
spot, with no finer outlook, no clearer vision, no stim- 
ulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is 
in no sense a good book. —Anna Warner. 



58 Thoughts 

Silence is a great peacemaker. —Longfellow. 

Each act of humble service is that divine touching 
of the ground which enables one to get the spring 
whereby he leaps to greater heights. —R. W. Trine. 

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven 
forever in the works of the world. —Ruskin. 

"It is no use running; to set out betimes is the 
main point." 

One ought never to speak of the faults of one's 
friends; it mutilates them. They can never be the 
same afterward. —William D. Howells. 

Whatever betide, every misfortune must be over- 
come by enduring it. —Virgil. 

"Never argue with a man who talks loud. You 
couldn't convince him in a thousand years." 

The new science perceives that instincts and aspira- 
tions in the mind are facts of nature that must be in- 
terpreted and accounted for by reason as truly as a 
stone in the hand. —Newell Dwtght Hillis. 



Thoughts 59 



Work and love: that is the body and soul of the 
human being. Happy he where they are one. 

— Auerbach. 

You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and 
steadfastness. And then some little, wretched, dis- 
agreeable duty comes which is your martyrdom, the 
lamp for your oil ; and if you do not do it, your oil is 
spilled. —Phillips Brooks. 

"Watch the thought you hold for the neighbor who 
is yet living in the consciousness of truth as you un- 
derstand it. As you are taught of the Spirit, so will 
he be taught in the way best adapted to him." 

Why do we so often prefer to believe in the neces- 
sity of suffering and weakness rather than in the pos- 
sibility of strength and gladness? — C. B. Newcomb. 

Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privi- 
leges to their possessor, so much as they bring duties. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

Every day should have some part 
Free for the Sabbath of the heart. 

— Wordsworth. 

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. 

— Victor Hugo. 

The higher education of women means more for the 
future than all conceivable legislative reforms. Its in- 
fluence does not stop with the home. 

— David Starr Jordan. 



60 Thoughts 

"It is not the spurt at the start, but the continued, 
unresting, unhasting advance that wins the day." 

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise 
men have enough to do with things present and to 
come. — Francis Bacon. 

Whichever way the wind doth blow 
Some heart is glad to have it so ; 
Then blow it east or blow it west, 
The wind that blows, that wind is best. 

— Caroline A. Mason. 

A lady's dress should be such as to please God, not 
laying aside taste, for is He not much more pleased 
when His children look well than otherwise? I have 
no idea that Christ was negligent of his dress. His 
garment was one counted worthy of casting lots upon. 

— Mary Lyon. 

Experience shows that success is due less to ability 
than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to 
his work, body and soul. —Charles Buxton. 

"The smelter bends above his pot of silver 
Watching its restless heavings to and fro, 

'Till ready for the careful coiner, 

His face reflected, the fused metal show." 



Thoughts 61 

It is monotony which eats the heart out of joy, de- 
stroys the buoyancy of the spirit, and turns hope to 
ashes; it is monotony which saps the vitality of the 
emotions; depletes the energy of the will, and finally 
turns the miracle of daily existence into dreary com- 
monplace. And monotony has its roots, not in our 
conditions, but in ourselves. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

Begin, therefore, with little things. Is it a little oil 
spilt or a little wine stolen? Say to yourself, this is 
the price paid for peace and tranquillity ; and nothing 
is to be had for nothing. And when you call your 
servant, consider that it is possible he may not come 
at your call, or, if he does, that he may not do what 
you wish. But it is not at all desirable for him, and 
very undesirable for you, that it should be in his power 
to cause you any disturbance. —Epictetus. 

Let us never forget that an act of goodness is of 
itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after 
the event can compare with the sweet reward that went 
with it. — Maurice Materlinck. 

I said, "I will go out and look for mine enemies," 
and that day I found no friends. Again, I said, "I 
will go out and look for my friends," and that day I 
found no enemies. —Gertrude R. Lewis. 



62 Thoughts 

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be 
the character of thy mind, for the soul is dyed by the 
thoughts. —Marcus Aurelius. 

Have faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. 

— Confucius. 

"If you will call your 'troubles' 'experiences/ and 
remember that every experience develops some latent 
force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, 
however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." 

Wanting to have a friend is altogether different 
from wanting to be a friend. The former is a mere 
natural human craving, the latter is the life of Christ 
in the soul. — ./. R. Miller. 

When we cultivate thoughts of strength for others, 
we ourselves grow strong. Habitual thoughts of 
peace bring us tranquillity. — C. B. Newcomb. 

All high happiness has in it some element of love; 
all love contains a desire for peace. One immediate 
effect of new happiness is to make us turn toward the 
past with a wish to straighten out its difficulties, heal 
its breaches and forgive its wrongs. 

— James Lane Allen. 



Thoughts 63 



When I am very weary 

I do not try to pray. 
I only shut my eyes, and wait 
To hear what God will say. 
Such rest it is to wait for Him 

As comes no other way. 

— Alice E. Worcester. 



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You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have 
fulfilled that of being pleasant. —Charles Buxton. 

We do a great deal of shirking in this life on the 
ground of not being geniuses. —Rose E. Cleveland. 

We never know for what God is preparing us in 
His schools — for what work on earth, for what work 
in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work 
well in the present place, whatever that may be. 

— Dr. Lyman Abbott. 

Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness 
gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 

— Amiel's Journal. 

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, 
Nor in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, 
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. 

— Longfellow. 

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that 
you are dreadfully like other people. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

There is a dust that settles on the heart as well as 
that which rests upon the ledge. It is better to wear 
out than to rust out. — Sir John Lubbock. 

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, 
when others pick it up becomes a gem. 

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Thoughts 65 

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind 
braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no 
such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good 
weather. —Ruskin. 

A haze on the far horizon 

The infinite, tender sky ; 

The ripe, rich tint of the corn-fields, 

And the wild geese sailing high ; 

And all over upland and lowland 

The charm of the golden-rod, — 

Some of us call it Autumn 

And others call it God. —M. H. Carruth. 

I built a chimney for a comrade old, 
I did the service not for hope or hire, 

And then I traveled on in winter's cold ; 
Yet all the day I glowed before the fire. 

— Edwin Markham. 

Flowers, says Ruskin, seem intended for the solace 
of ordinary humanity. Children love them; quiet, 
tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they 
grow; they are the cottager's treasure; and in the 
crowded town mark, as with a little broken fragment 
of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart 
rests the covenant of peace. 



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66 Thoughts 

Great privileges never go save in company with 
great responsibilities. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

He who has a high standard of living and thinking 
will certainly do better than he who has none at all. 

— Samuel Smiles. 

You will find as you look back upon your life that 
the moments that stand out, the moments when you 
have really lived, are the moments when you have 
done things in a spirit of love. —Henry Drummond. 

And let him go where he will, he can only find so 
much beauty or worth as he carries. — Emerson. 

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you 
will find what is needful for you — in a book, or a 
friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eter- 
nal thought speaking in your thought. 

— George Macdonald. 

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! 
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. 

— Byron. 

Displays of moral excellence, truths set forth in 
living actions, are multiplied as they are shown. Men 
are won by what they approve. They are led to imi- 
tate what they admire. Laudable actions never stand 
alone. They go from eye to eye, from heart to heart, 
creating fresh copies of their immortal worth. 

— Dr. Frothingham. 



Thoughts 67 



Wouldst shape a noble life ? Then cast 
No backward glances toward the past, 
And though somewhat be lost and gone, 
Yet do thou act as one new-born ; 
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, 
Each day will set its proper task. 

— Goethe. 



68 Thoughts 



We should think just as though our thought were 
visible to all about us. Real character is not outward 
conduct, but quality of thinking. —Henry Wood. 

It is a much shallower and more ignoble occupation 
to detect faults than to discover beauties. —Carlyle. 

Whatever you wish to accomplish, be willing to do, 
and to commence your work at once, right where you 
find yourself, and decide that you do not want any- 
thing better to begin with than the conditions that 
surround you, for God is with you. —Raja Yoga. 

No one is respectable who is not doing his best. 

— Horace Fletcher. 

The broad-minded see the truth in different re- 
ligions; the narrow-minded see only their differences 

— Chinese Proverb. 

The dawn is not distant, 
Nor is the night starless; 

Love is eternal ! 
God is still God, and 
His faith shall not fail us ; 

Christ is eternal ! —Longfellow. 

Let us be like the bird for a moment perched 

On a frail branch while he sings; 
Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song, 

Knowing that he hath wings. —Victor Hugo. 



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Let us love so well 
Our work shall still be sweeter for our love, 
And still our love be sweeter for our work. 

— Elisabeth Barrett Browning. 

"If you have gracious words to say 
Oh, give them to our hearts to-day, 
But if your words will cause us sorrow, 
Pray keep them till the last to-morrow." 

High thoughts and noble in all lands 
Help me : my soul is fed by such. 
But ah, the touch of life and hands, 

The human touch ! 
Warm, vital, close, life's symbols dear, 
These need I most, and now, and here. 

— Richard Burton. 



7o Thoughts 

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal 
laws, to be led by permanent ideals, — that is what 
keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and 
calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. 

— Dr. A. Peabody. 

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which 
it leaves behind. —Jean Paul. 

No education is complete, nor, indeed, of great per- 
manent value, that does not teach how to live con- 
tentedly and to economize nerve energy. 

— Mary Roberts Smith. 

I have seen manners that make a similar impression 
with personal beauty, that give us the like exhilara- 
tion, and refine us like that. But they must be marked 
by fine perception, they must always show self-con- 
trol. Then they must be inspired by the good heart. 

— Emerson. 

Patience! have faith and thy prayer will be an- 
swered. —Longfellow. 

"Sentiment cannot do duty for humanity." 

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and 
in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in will- 
ing service. —Longfellow. 



Thoughts 71 



We find in life exactly what we put into it. 

— Emerson. 

Every duty we omit ooscures some truth we should 
have known. —Ruskin. 

From Socrates to Browning the thinkers and poets 
have all been emancipators. In the end, this bringing 
of new light into the minds of the world will be 
counted their chief service. —Hamilton IV. Mabie. 

By all means use sometimes to be alone. 
Salute thyself : see what thy soul doth wear. 
Dare to look in thy chest — for 'tis thine own, — 
And tumble up and down what thou findest there. 
Who cannot rest till he good fellows finde, 
He breaks up house, turns out of doors his minde. 

— George Herbert. 

Personal happiness is almost synonymous with per- 
sonal interests; the wider the range of the latter, the 
higher is the degree of happiness. —Lilian Whiting. 

Thoughts of courage, and hope, and highest expec- 
tation growing habitual, may lift out and up many a 
weary pilgrim. __£,. Purington. 

"The ornaments of a home are the guests who fre- 
quent it." 



72 Thoughts 

Do not waste a minute — not a second — in trying to 
demonstrate to others the merit of your own perform- 
ance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you can- 
not vindicate it. —Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 

To go about moping, depressed, blue, out of spirits 
in general, is to exist, but not to live. It is the condi- 
tion of a mollusk, and unworthy a human being. 
Worry is a state of spiritual corrosion. A trouble 
either can be remedied, or it cannot. If it can be, 
then set about it ; if it cannot be, dismiss it from your 
consciousness, or bear it so bravely that it may become 
transfigured to a blessing. —Lilian Whiting. 

"It is easy enough to be pleasant 

When life flows by like a song, 
But the man worth while is the man who will smile 

When everything goes dead wrong ; 
For the test of the heart is trouble, 

And it always comes with years, 
And the smile that comes with the praises of earth 

Is the smile that shines through tears." 

I think we should treat our minds as innocent chil- 
dren whose guardian we are — be careful what ob- 
jects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. 

—Henry D. Thoreau. 



Thoughts'^ 73 



Gather roses while they blossom; to-morrow is not 
to-day! Allow no moment to escape; to-morrow is 
not to-day. —Gleim. 

Cheapness of nature can be redeemed only from one 
source — that of the invisible power on the divine side 
of life. By seeking this in silence and concentration 
for a little time each day all refinement and loveliness 
and charm can be achieved. It is the magic of life. 
— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

I have wished to teach a single lesson, true alike to 
all men — the lesson of the saving of time. 

— David Starr Jordan. 

There are so many things — best things — that can 
only come when youth is past, that it may well hap- 
pen to many of us to find ourselves happier and hap- 
pier to the last. —Q eorge Eliot. 

This world is no blot for us 
Nor blank ; it means intensely, and means good. 

— Browning. 

Poetry frequents and keeps habitable those upper 
chambers of the mind that open toward the sun's 
rising. —James Russell Lowell. 



74 Thoughts 



The individual who cultivates grievances, and who 
is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed 
wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education 
of time and of development. . . . One does not 
argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over 
stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher 
region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair. 

— Lilian Whiting. 

"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its 
way through the world." 

Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt 
come to them if it shall be necessary, having with thee 
the same reason which thou now usest for present 
things. —Marcus Aurelius. 

We hear much said of "environment." We need 
to realize that environment should never be allowed to 
make the man, but that man should always, and always 
can, condition the environment. When we realize this, 
we will find that many times it is not necessary to take 
ourselves out of any particular environment, because 
we may yet have a work to do there ; but by the very 
force we carry with us, we can so affect and change 
matters that we will have an entirely new set of con- 
ditions in an old environment. 

—Ralph Waldo Trine. 



Thoughts 75 



FABLE. 

The mountain and the squirrel 

Had a quarrel, 

And the former called the latter "Little Prig"; 

Bun replied, 

"You are doubtless very big ; 

But all sorts of things and weather 

Must be taken in together, 

To make up a year 

And a sphere. 

And I think it no disgrace 

To occupy my place. 

If I'm not so large as you, 

You are not so small as I, 

And not half so spry. 

I'll not deny you make 

A very pretty squirrel track ; 

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; 

If I cannot carry forests on my back, 

Neither can you crack a nut." —Emerson. 



76 Thoughts 

O the paralyzing effect of fear of evil! It surely 
doth make "cowards of us all." It makes us pygmies 
where we might be giants, were we only free from it. 

— H. Emilie Cady. 

As you grow old, guard against the tendency to 
live more coarsely, to relax in your discipline. Obey 
your finest instincts. Be fastidious to the extreme of 
sanity. —Thoreau. 

"Then let us smile when skies are gray, 
And laugh at stormy weather, 
And sing life's lonesome times away : 
So worry and the dreariest day 
Will find an end together." 

Character is not only written in the face, expressed 
in conduct and language, but is sent forth as a thought 
atmosphere. —Dresser. 

Others shall 
Take patience, courage, to their heart ana hand 
From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer, 
And God's grace fructify through thee to all. 

— Elisabeth Barrett Browning. 

To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth 
is to open the way to appreciate all beautiful and true 
and gracious souls, and to recognize spiritual beauty 
wherever it is seen. —H. Black. 



Thoughts J7 

We must alter for the better always and unceas- 
ingly. Nature seems to be at rest only because she is 
perpetually renewed. The soul enjoys repose on the 
same terms. -De Ravignon. 

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His 
making: but He does not give the power to bear the 
sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of 
sorrow most assuredly is. —Ian MacLaren. 

Ever laughs the sunlight in our eyes at morning and 

at noon, 
Comes the pure, cool wind, to whisper past our cheek 

its cheery tune, 
Just to tell us Earth is beautiful, and at the quiet even 
Every star looks down lest we forget that earth is 

crowned with Heaven. — E. R. Sill. 

"The whole world unites in pushing us the way we 
have really made up our mind to go." 

Without distinction, without calculation, without 
procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where 
it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often 
need it most ; most of all upon our equals, where it is 
very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least 
of all. —Henry Drummond 



78 Thoughts 

Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute ! 
What you can do, or think you can, begin it ! 

— Goethe. 

'T is better to live rich than to die rich. 

— Dr. Johnson. 

It seems to me there is no maxim for a noble life 
like this: Count always your highest moments your 
truest moments. Believe that in the time when you 
were the greatest and most spiritual man, then you 
were your truest self. —Phillips Brooks. 

Fine society is the graceful, genial, sympathetic 
intercourse of fine souls. —Lilian Whiting. 

The stream of content must flow from ourselves, 
taking its source from a deliberate disposition to learn 
what is good, and a determined resolution to seek for 
and enjoy it, however small the portion may be. 

— Zimmerman. 

When you have a number of disagreeable duties 
to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. 

— Josiah Quincy. 

God says, live deeply, earnestly in the present, and 
the spirit of all the ages shall come and reveal itself 
to you. —Phillips Brooks. 



Thoughts 79 

To try too hard to make people good is one way to 
make them worse. The only way to make them good, 
is to be good, remembering well the beam and the 
mote. —George Macdonald. 

"Ask God to give thee skill 

For comfort's art, 
That thou may'st consecrated be, 

And set apart 
Unto a life of sympathy ! 
For comforters are needed much 

Of Christ-like touch." 

For he that wrongs his friend 
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about 
A silent court of justice in his breast, 
Himself the judge and jury, and himself 
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. 

— Tennyson. 

The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. With- 
out it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so 
hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes be- 
fore a hearty laugh. —G. S. Merriam. 

The happiest heart that ever beat 

Was in some quiet breast, 
That found the common daylight sweet 

And left to Heaven the rest. 

— John Vance Cheney. 



So Thoughts 

"Of all work," said the Bishop of Exeter, "that 
produces results, nine-tenths must be drudgery. There 
is no work, from the highest to the lowest, which can 
be done well by any man who is unwilling to make 
that sacrifice." 

It is a hard thing to close up a discourse and to 
cut it short, when you are once in, and have a great 
deal more to say. There is nothing wherein the 
strength and breeding of a horse is so much seen as in 
a round, graceful, and sudden stop. —Montaigne. 

Greatly begin! though thou have time 
But for a line, be that sublime — 
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? 
Yes; work never begun. —Christina Rossetti. 

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice 
on others, it is usually because we suspect their weak- 
ness ; but we ought rather to suspect our own. 

— Colt on. 

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will 
cleanse and brighten it. —Dr. Johnson. 





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E T us be of good cheer, remembering that 
the misfortunes hardest to bear are those 
-which never come. 
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Thoughts 81 

Efforts to be permanently useful, must be uniformly 
joyous — a spirit all sunshine — graceful from very 
gladness, beautiful because bright. —Carlyle. 

Read the philosophers, and learn how to make life 
happy; seeking useful precepts and brave and noble 
words which may become deeds. — Seneca. 

"I pray the prayer of Pluto old ; 

God make thee beautiful within, 
And let thine eye the good behold 
In everything save sin." 

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gen- 
tle as real strength. —St. Francis de Sales. 

Oh! square thyself for use; a stone that may 
Fit in the wall is left not in the way. 

— R. C. French. 

The best piece of good fortune which can come 
to one is opportunity for intimacy with a leader, in 
whatever line of life he may be engaged. 

— Edward Everett Hale. 

God has delivered yourself to your care, and says : 
"I had no fitter to trust than you." —Epictetus. 



Thoughts 



I gazed on the throng of hurrying faces, 
Some in tatters and some in laces, 
And I said to myself, "How will it be, 
When the soul of each is at last set free?" 

For she who is plainest and most forlorn, 
May, by her beauty, God's heaven adorn; 
While she who is fairest of form and face, 
May, near God's beautiful, look out of place. 

So I said, "How, my soul, will it be with thee?" 

— Laura Barker. 



Thoughts 83 



Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pur- 
suit of happiness. They think it consists in having and 
getting, and in being served by others. It consists in 
giving and in serving others. —Henry Drummond. 

What we like determines what we are, and is the 
sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably 
to form character. —Ruskin. 

One feast of holy days the crest 

I, though no Churchman, love to keep; 

All- Saints — the unknown good that rest 
In God's still memory folded deep. 

— Lowell. 

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. 

— Horace Mann. 

Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that 
if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify 
no other. Our heaven and our Almighty Father are 
there or nowhere. —Dr. James Martineau. 

"Whether in large or small affairs, there must be 
perpetual adjustment. Neither men nor women, more 
than our finely strung musical instruments can escape 
the need of constant tuning." 



84 Thoughts 

As nothing reveals character like the company we 
like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the 
thoughts over which we brood. 

— Newell Dwight Hillis. 

Simply do the best you know, then trust. He who 
seeks to live by the Spirit and who cares above all 
for that, will not be without guidance. 

— Horatio W. Dresser. 

Though to-day may not fulfill 

All thy hopes, have patience still; 

For perchance to-morrow's sun 

Sees thy happier day begun. —P. Gerhardt. 

There are beautiful things far out in the years: 
Can we not bear bravely some burdens and fears ? 
— From Dream Land Sent, Lilian Whiting. 

The years 
Have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons, none* 
Wiser than this, to spend in all things else, 
But of old friends to be most miserly. —Lowell 

"It is better to endure all the frowns and anger of 
the greatest on earth, than to have an uneasy con- 
science within our breast. O, let the bird in the soul 
be always kept singing whatsoever one may suffer." 



Thoughts 85 



The men and women that are lifting the world 
upward and onward are those who encourage more 
than criticise. —Elisabeth Harrison. 

I ought not to pronounce judgment on a fellow 
creature until I know all that enters into his life ; until 
I can measure all the forces of temptation and resist- 
ance; until I can give full weight to all the facts in 
the case. In other words, I am never in a position 
to judge another. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

What I am thinking and doing day by day is re- 
sistlessly shaping my future — a future in which there 
is no expiation except through my own better conduct. 
No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. 
If I am wise I shall begin to-day to build my own 
truer and better world from within. 

— H. W. Dresser. 

I am an enemy to long explanation; they deceive 
either the maker or the hearer, generally both. 

— Goethe. 

He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread 
in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have 
forgotten the cause. —Henry Ward Beecher. 



86 Thoughts 



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When the outlook is not good, try the uplook/ 



Every advance we make toward the realization of the 
truth of the permanence and immanence of law, brings 
us nearer to Him, who is the First Cause of all law 
and all phenomena. —David Starr Jordan. 

When in the mid-day march we meet 
The outstretched shadows of the night, 

The promise, how divinely sweet, 
"At eventide, it shall be light." 

— Alice Cary. 

You are never to complain of your birth, your 
training, your employments, your hardships; never to 
fancy that you could be something if only you had a 
different lot and sphere assigned you. God under- 
stands his own plan, and He knows what you want a 
great deal better than you do yourself. — H. Bushnell. 

Soar on and up, it's God projecting as it goes, 
Expanding into love and joy and peace — but not re- 
pose. — W. W. Story. 

"If you would have a happy family life, remember 
two things : in matters of principle, stand like a rock ; 
in matters of taste, swim with the current." 



Thoughts 87 

Learn not only by a comet's rush, but by a rose's 
blush. — Browning. 

When the Kingdom is once found, life ceases to be 
a plodding, and becomes an exaltation, an ecstasy, a 
joy. —R. W. Trine. 

Immortality will come to such as are fit for it ; and 
he who would be a great soul in the future must be a 
great soul now. —Emerson. 

There is no kind of bondage which life lays upon us 
that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and 
nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the 
spirit in which he bears his limitations. 

— Hamilton W. Mabie. 

The vision of things to be done may come a long 
time before the way of doing them appears clear. But 
woe to him who distrusts the vision. 

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 

"Every day is a fresh beginning, 

Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain ; 
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, 
Take heart with the day and begin again." 

In order to manage children well, we must borrow 
their eyes and their hearts, see and feel as they do, and 
judge them from their own point of view. 

I pray God to make parents reasonable. 

— Eugenie de Guerin. 



88 Thoughts 

The finest culture comes from the study of men in 
their best moods. —Plutarch. 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest as- 
pirations ; I cannot reach them, but I can look up and 
see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow- 
where they lead. —Louisa May Alcott. 

No power in society, no hardship in your condition 
can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, 
virtue, influence, but by your own consent. 

— Channing. 

Contentment comes neither by culture nor by wish- 
ing; it is reconciliation with our lot, growing out of 
an inward superiority to our surroundings. 

— Rev. J. K. McLean. 

At times it is only necessary to rest one's self in 
silence for a few minutes, in order to take off the 
pressure and become wonderfully refreshed. 

— Dresser. 

Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid 
condition of the inward disposition. 

It is self-love inflamed to the acute point. 

— Drummond. 

It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the poor, 
> but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and 
a little kindness are often worth more than a great 
deal of money. —Ruskin. 



Thoughts 89 



For life, with all its yields of joy and woe 
And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — 

Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love; 
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is ; 

And that we hold henceforth to the uttermost 
Such prize despite the envy of the world, 

And having gained truth, keep truth, that is all. 

— Robert Browning. 



90 Thoughts 



Oh, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger 
men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. 
Pray for powers equal to your tasks ! Then the doing 
of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be 
a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, 
at the richness of life which has come in you by the 
grace of God. —Phillips Brooks. 

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty 
to-morrow, brother, of its sorrow; but ah! it empties 
to-day of its strength. It does not make you escape 
the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it 
comes. — Ian MacLaren. 

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, 
about what you want, what you like, what respect peo- 
ple ought to pay you ; and then to you nothing will be 
pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will 
make misery for yourself out of everything which God 
sends you : you will be as wretched as you choose. 

— Charles Kingsley. 

But on God's dial-plate of time, 

'Tis never late to him who stands 
Self-centred in a trust sublime, 

With mastered force and thinking hands. 

— Minot J. Savage. 

"Look for the light that the shadow proves." 



Thoughts 91 

Oh, the little birds sang East, 

and the little birds sang West, 
And I smiled to think God's 

greatness flowed around our incompleteness, 
Round our restlessness, His rest. 

— E. B. Browning. 

Be thrifty, but not covetous : therefore give 

Thy need, thine honor, and thy friend his due. 

Never was scraper brave man. Get to live; 

Then live, and use it : else it is not true 
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone 
Makes money not a contemptible stone. 

— George Herbert. 

"I do not deem that it matters not 

How you live your life below; 
It matters much to the heedless crowd 

That you see go to and fro; 
For all that is noble and high and good 

Has an influence on the rest, 
And the world is better for everyone 

Who is living at his best." 

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm. Let us 
ever glory in something, and strive to attain our ad- 
miration for all that would ennoble, and our interest 
in all that would enrich and beautify our life. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



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92 Thoughts 

A high purpose is magnetic and attracts rich re- 
sources. —Lilian Whiting. 

Be firm : one certain element in luck 
Is genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck. 

— Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, 
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong 
thing at the tempting moment. 

— George Augustus Sala. 

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can 
catch during the day, if one really sets about it. 

— Dinah Maria Mulock. 

So I will trudge with heart elate, 

And feet with courage shod, 
For that which men call chance and fate 

Is the handiwork of God. —Alice Cary. 

"This world is a difficult world indeed, 
And people are hard to suit, 
And the man who plays on the violin 
Is a bore to the man with a flute." 

No man can be provident of his time who is not 
prudent in the choice of his company. 

— Jeremy Taylor. 



Thoughts 93 

Every great man is always being helped by every- 
body; for his gift is to get good out of all things and 
all persons. —Ruskin. 

Belief in compensation, or that nothing is got 'for 
nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. 

— Emerson. 

Never shrink from anything which your business 
calls you to do. The man who is above his business 
may one day find his business above him. —Drew. 

The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, 
Is not to fancy what were fair in life, 
Provided it could be — but finding first 
What may be, then find how to make it fair 
Up to our means. —Browning. 

Every life that has God in it has the index to char- 
acter and the key to the highest attainment. 

— L. Purington. 

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are ; be humbly 
what you aspire to be. Man's noblest gift to man is 
his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also. 

— Henry D. Thoreau. 



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94 Thoughts 

We often do more good by our sympathy than by 
our labors. —Canon Farrar. 

Dost thou love life ? Then waste not time ; for time 
is the stuff that life is made of. —Benjamin Franklin. 

The best way of training the young, is to train your- 
self at the same time ; not to admonish them, but to be 
seen always doing that of which you would admon- 
ish them. —Plato. 

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, 
as if you meant to spend your life there, never omit- 
ting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a 
true word, or making a friend. —Ruskin. 

Landor's definition of a great man: He who can 
call together the most select company when it pleases 
him. 

We go apart to get still ; that new life, new inspira- 
tion, new power of thought, new supplies from the 
Fountainhead, may flow in. — H. Emilie Cady. 

Perhaps it is a good thing to have an unsound hobby 
ridden hard ; for it is sooner ridden to death. 

— Charles Dickens. 



Thoughts 95 



"Take a dash of water cold 

And a little leaven of prayer, 
A little bit of sunshine gold 

Dissolved in the morning air ; 
Add to your meal some merriment ^ 

And a thought for kith and kin; 
And then, as a prime ingredient 

A plenty of work thrown in : 
But spice it all with the essence of love 

And a little whiff of play : 
Let a wise old book and a glance above 

Complete a well spent day." 



g6 Thoughts 

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. 

—Rabbi Hillel. 

"He who is always inquiring what people will say, 
will never give them opportunity to say anything great 
about him." 

Borrowing is the canker and the oleath of every 
man's estate. —Sir Walter Raleigh. 

It is not so much what you say to the children that 
charges the atmosphere of your home, as it is the 
spirit of your life, the temper you exhibit, the ends 
which you live for. —Dr. J. K. McLean. 

Punishment closely follows sin, it being born at the 
same time with it. Whoever expects punishment, al- 
ready suffers it ; whoever has deserved it, expects it. 

— Montaigne. 

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to 
maintain what I consider the most enviable of all 
titles, that of an "Honest Man." 

— George Washington. 

Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be never so 
dark; and it shall come to pass that your life at last 
shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in 
the line of that longing ; that shall be as it pleaseth 
God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the 
most ancient heavens are not more sure than that. 

— Robert Collyer. 




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LL service ranks the same ivith God—^ 
There is no last or first. 



Thocights 97 

Men suffer all their life long under the foolish su- 
perstition that they can be cheated. But it is as im- 
possible for a man to be cheated by anyone but him- 
self, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same 
time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. 
The nature and soul of things takes on itself the 
guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that 
honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an 
ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in 
your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer 
the payment is withholden, the better for you; for 
compound interest on compound interest is the rate 
and usage of this exchequer. —Emerson. 

I believe if we could only see beforehand what it is 
that our Heavenly Father means us to be, the soul 
beauty and perfection and glory, the glorious and 
lovely spiritual body that this soul is to dwell in 
through all eternity, if we could have a glimpse of this, 
we should not grudge all the trouble and pains he is 
taking with us now to bring us up to that ideal which 
is his thought of us. —Annie Keary. 

Let thy every word and act be perfect truth, ut- 
tered in genuine love. Let not the forms of business, 
or the conventional arrangements of society reduce thee 
into falsehood. Be true to thyself. Be true to thy 
friend. Be true to the world. —Lydia Maria Child. 



98 Thoughts 

Infidelity to self is infidelity to God. 

— Charles B. Newcomb. 

Learn to handle and control the ignorant part of 
your being as you would watch and guide a child. 
Hold thought and expression to your highest ideal. 
Learn from your failure. 

— God's Light as It Came to Me. 

Self reliance is the basis of behavior, as it is the 
guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too 
much demonstration. —Emerson. 

For not in far-off realms of space 

The Spirit hath its throne ; 

In every heart it findeth place 

And waiteth to be known. — F. L. Hosmer. 

Difficulties may surround our path; but if the dif- 
ficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be 
overcome. —Prof. Jowett. 

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but 
of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and 
small obligations, given habitually, are what win and 
preserve the heart and secure comfort. 

— Sir Humphrey Davy. 



Thoughts 99 



He that respects himself is safe from others ; 
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 

— Longfellow. 

Chilo, having had the question put to him, What is 
difficult? said: "To be silent about secrets; to make 
good use of one's leisure ; and to be able to submit to 
injustice." 

We should every day call ourselves to an account. 
What infirmity have I mastered to-day? What temp- 
tation have I resisted? What virtue acquired? Our 
vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every 
day to the shrift. —Seneca. 

Life is something, while the senses heed 

The spirit's call; 
Life is nothing, when our grosser need 

Engulfs it all. —Julia Ward Howe. 

The true spirit of conversation consists in building 
on another man's observation, not overturning it. 

— Bulwer. 

Revery is the Sunday of thought; and who knows 
which is the more important and fruitful for man, the 
laborious tension of the week, or the life-giving re- 
pose of the Sabbath? —Amiel's Journal. 
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There is nothing ridiculous in seeming to be what 
you really are, but a good deal in affecting to be what 
you are not. — Sir J. Lubbock. 

In life's small things be resolute and great 

To keep thy muscles trained : knowest thou when Fate 

Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, 

"I find thee worthy, do this thing for me ?" 

— Lowell. 

If I can stop one heart from breaking, 

I shall not live in vain. 
If I can ease one life the aching, 

Or cool one pain, 
Or help one fainting robin 

Unto his nest again, 
I shall not live in vain. —Emily Dickinson. 

I know of no more encouraging fact than the un- 
questionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a 
conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to 
paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so 
make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glori- 
ous to carve and paint the very atmosphere and me- 
dium through which we look, which morally we can do. 

— Henry D. Thoreau. 



Thoughts 101 

Much which we think essential is merely a matter 
of habit. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 

The royal road to success is to obey the inner genius, 
to act in accordance with one's own intuition, regard- 
less of the fear or favor of those who are bound to the 
wheel of conventional consistency. —Lilian Whiting. 

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a 
good action for all eternity. —Lavater, 

New occasions teach new duties; 

Time makes ancient good uncouth ; 
They must upward still, and onward, 

Who would keep abreast of truth. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

What do we live for if it is not to make life less 
difficult to each other ? —George Eliot. 

Good to forgive, best to forget. —Browning. 

What reason have we to think any other station in 
the universe more sanctifying than our own? There 
is none, so far as we can tell, under the more imme- 
diate touch of God, none whence sublimer deeps are 
open to adoration, none murmuring with the whisper 
of more thrilling affections or ennobled as the theater 
of more glorious duties. Those to whom the earth 
is not consecrated will find their heaven profane. 

— Dr. James Martineau. 



102 Thoughts 

Whoever can influence men should strive to make 
them more courageous, more enduring, more hopeful, 
simpler, more joyful. —Bishop Spaulding. 

It is our part in life to work with all our strength 
toward the realization of ideal humanity, to add one 
more link to the chain which joins the man-brute of 
the past, through the man of the present, to the man 
of the future. The man who is likest Him, we have 
chosen for our ideal. —David Starr Jordan. 

My own experience and development deepens every 
day my conviction that our moral progress may be 
measured by the degree in which we sympathize with 
individual suffering and individual joy. 

— George Eliot. 

"When opposition of any kind is necessary, drop all 
color of emotion out of it and let it be seen in the 
white light of truth." 

The true use of a man's possessions is to help his 
work, and the best end of all his work is to show us 
what he is. The noblest workers of our world be- 
queath us nothing so great as the image of themselves. 

— fames Martineau. 



Thoughts 103 

"What is the secret of your life?" asked Mrs. 
Browning of Charles Kingsley; "tell me, that I may 
make mine beautiful too?" He replied, "I had a 
friend." —William C. Gannett. 

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites 
by severity. —St. Frances de Sales. 

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness ; altogether 
past calculation its powers of endurance. — Carlyle. 

Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away 
all trivial fond records, that youth and observation 
copied there; and thy commandment all along shall 
live within the book and volume of my brain, unmixed 
with baser matter. —Shakespeare. 

I am surprised that intelligent men do not see the 
immense value of good temper in their homes; and 
am amazed that they will take such pains to have 
costly houses and fine furniture, and yet sometimes 
neglect to bring home with them good temper. 

— Theodore Parker. 

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless 
gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous 
work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mastery be- 
yond human conception, and so delicate that a word, 
a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. 

— Nikola Tesla, 



104 Thoughts 

Beware of desperate steps ; the darkest day, 
Lived till to-morrow, will have passed away. 

— Cowper. 

Education should be full of feeling. It takes sun- 
light to draw out the fragrance of the violet and the 
perfume of the rose. —Ellen A. Richardson. 

We are encompassed about by the forces that make 
for righteousness. All power we possess, or seem to 
possess, comes from our accord with these forces. 
There is no lasting force, except the power of God. 

— David Starr Jordan. 

If one admires the patience, gentleness, sweetness 
and unfailing energy of another; if he finds himself 
renewed and invigorated and inspired by such contact, 
— why does he not himself so live that he may bring 
the same renewal and inspiration to others ? 

— Lilian Whiting. 

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook 
Unless the deed go with it. —Shakespeare. 

Characters are determined not by the opinions 
which we profess, but by those on which our thoughts 
habitually fasten, which recur to them most forcibly 
and which color our ordinary views of God and duty. 
— William Ellery Channing. 



Thoughts 105 

We are too busy, too encumbered, too much occu- 
pied, too active ! We read too much ! The one thing 
needful is to throw off all one's load of cares, and to 
become young again, living happily and gracefully in 
the present hour. We must know how to put occu- 
pation aside, which does not mean that we must be 
idle. — Translation, Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 

The new conditions of life demand the higher spir- 
ituality of the individual. But what is this? Is it a 
name, a mental state of exaltation, an ecstasy ? Is it an 
exalted hour, or is it conduct? Is it a merely theo- 
retical thing, a vision caught in some rare hour ? . . . 
If it be thus, it may have a decorative value in 
ethics, but is devoid of any practical bearing on our 
common life. Unless spirituality is the power that 
transforms falsehood to truth, selfishness to generosity, 
unless it enters into character as a pervasive force, of 
what use can it be ? 

Spirituality is not negative. It is not the mere ab- 
sence of sin. It is the most positive state. 

— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

The world seemed empty, and black, and cold, 
And wretched, and helpless, and very old. 
God gave me a thought ; a new world grew, 
The thought created the world anew. 

— 5". W. Foss. 



106 Thoughts 

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. 

— Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

No one has any more right to go about unhappy 
than he has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to him- 
self, to his friends, to society and the community in 
general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not 
only now and then, but every day and every hour. 

— Lilian Whiting. 

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure 
that he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure is he that 
he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. 

— Sir Philip Sidney. 

Blessed are they who have the gift of making 
friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves 
many things, but, above all, the power of going out of 
one's self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is 
noble and loving in another. —Thomas Hughes. 

There is no duty the fulfillment of which will not 
make you happier, nor any temptation for which there 
is no remedy. —Seneca. 

Let nothing come between you and the light. 

— Henry D. Thoreau. 



Thoughts 107 



"The summer vanishes, but soon shall come 
The glad young days of yet another year. 
So do not mourn the passing of a joy, 
But rather wait the coming of a good, 
And know God never takes a gift away 
But He sends other gifts to take its place." 



108 Thoughts 

We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, 
which we are willing to give the benefit of a good 
light. — Emerson. 

The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We 
cannot stay it if we would. We must go on and leave 
our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those 
whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await be- 
yond. —Phillips Brooks. 

Opportunity is a good angel, but she deserts those 
who fail to recognize her. The ring of power must 
be worn; ... if the charm is not held to serv- 
ice, it slips away. —Lilian Whiting. 

A dull day need not be a depressing day ; depression 
always implies physical or moral weakness, and is 
therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can strug- 
gle against it. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours 
And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 
— Young's Night Thoughts. 

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. 

— Lessing. 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best 
day of the year. —Emerson. 



Thoughts 109 

If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star. 

— P. T. Barnum. 

The highest point of achievement of yesterday is 
the starting point of to-day. 

— Motto of Paulist Fathers. 

I look upon that man as happy, who, when there is 
a question of success, looks into his work for a reply ; 
not into the market, not into opinion, not into patron- 
age. Work is victory. You want but one verdict ; if 
you have your own, you are secure of the rest. 

— Emerson. 

There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, 
Be the skies above or dark or fair, 
There is ever a song that our hearts may hear- 
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear — 
There is ever a song somewhere ! 

— James Whit comb Riley. 

"The Present, the Present is all thou hast 
For thy sure possessing; 
Like the Patriarch's angel, hold it fast 
Till it gives its blessing." 

What a sublime doctrine it is that goodness cher- 
ished now, is eternal life already entered upon ! 

— William Ellery Channing. 



no Thoughts 



He who feels contempt 

For any living thing, hath faculties 

That he has never used : 

And thought with him 

Is in its infancy. —Phillips Brooks. 



Thoughts 



" 'This one thing I do/ or, These forty things I 
dabble in,' — which shall it be ?" 

I expect to pass through this life but once. If, 
therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any 
good I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, 
let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. 

— Mrs. A. B. Hegeman. 

We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book. 

— E. B. Browning. 

Build a little fence of trust around to-day, 
Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay; 
Look not through the sheltering bars upon to-morrow, 
God will help thee bear what comes of joy or sorrow. 

— Mary Frances Butts. 

A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition is the best 
umbrella for this vale of tears. —Wm. D. Howells. 

He who meets life as though it meant something 
worth rinding out, and who expresses his best self, is 
the one who has the permanent basis of happiness. 

— H. W. Dresser. 

Conscience is nothing else but the echo of God's 
voice within the soul. —E. B. Hall. 



H2 Thoughts 

We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the re- 
iterated choice of good or evil, that gradually deter- 
mines character. —Q eorge Eliot. 

To be courteous to one's peers is all very well, but 
it is fairness and courtesy and consideration to those 
in dependent or limited conditions that constitute the 
true test of the gentleman or lady. —Lilian Whiting. 

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. 
The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. 

— George Eliot. 

I should count myself fortunate if my home were 
remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, char- 
ity, and aspiring intelligence. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

How soon a smile of God can change the world ! 
How we are made for happiness — how work 
Grows play, adversity a winning fight! 

— Browning. 

Let this auspicious morning be expressed 
With a white stone distinguished from the rest, 
White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear, 
And let new joys attend on thy now added year. 

— Dryden. 

Give to a gracious message a host of tongues; but 
let ill tidings tell themselves. —Shakespeare. 




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MMOR TALITY will come to such as 
are Jit for it, and he who would be a great 
soul in the future must be a great soul now. 



Thoughts 113 

Still o'er the earth hastes Opportunity, 
Seeking the hardy soul that seeks for her. 
Be not abroad, nor deaf with household cares 
That chatter loudest as they mean the least ; 
Swift-willed is thrice willed ; late means nevermore ; 
Impatient is her foot, nor turns again. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

To live content with small means — to seek elegance 
rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fash- 
ion, to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not 
rich — to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act 
frankly, to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, 
with open heart — to bear all cheerfully — do all bravely, 
await occasions — never hurry; in a word, to let the 
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through 
the common. This is to be my symphony. 

— William Ellery Channing. 

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the 
market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just 
as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some 
great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind 
depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When 
we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that 
g *eat army which achieves the welfare of the world. 

— Theodore Parker. 






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Opportunities correspond with almost mathematical 
accuracy to the ability for using them. 

— Lilian Whiting. 

The blessedness of life depends more upon its in- 
terests than upon its comforts. —George Macdonald. 

No man finds himself until he has created a world 
for his own soul ; a world apart from care and weak- 
ness and the confusion of strife, in which the faiths 
that inspire him, and the ideals that lead him are the 
great and lasting verities. —Hamilton W. Mabie. 

Endeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and 
infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for 
thou thyself also hast many failings which must be 
borne with by others. —Thomas a Kempis. 

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He 
who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. 
He who puts off impurity thereby puts on purity. 

— Emerson. 

They also serve who only stand and wait. 

— Milton. 

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his 
company and choice of his actions. —Jeremy Taylor. 



Thoughts 115 



In all things throughout the world, the man who 
looks for the crooked will see the crooked, and the 
man who looks for the straight will see the straight. 

— Ruskin. 

Begin, live, aspire, realize the best ideal of the mo- 
ment; and this earnest effort shall lead the way to 
greater achievement. —H. IV. Dresser. 

Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the uni- 
verse, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a 
charm to sadness, gayety and life to everything. It 
is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, 
just, and beautiful. —Plato. 

If thou wouldst speak a word of loving cheer, 
Oh, speak it now. This moment is thine own. 
— Nellie M. Richardson. 

Can a man help imitating that with which he holds 
reverential converse? —Plato. 

If a man can write a better book, preach a better ^ 
sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neigh- 
bor, though he builds his house in the woods, the 
world will make a beaten path to his door. 

, —Emerson. 



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Come, let us live the poetry we sing. 

— Edwin Markham. 

"Instead of wishing that all men were of our mind, 
we should account it one of the first blessings of life 
that there are men who do not agree with us. The 
currents of sea and air are not more necessary than 
the currents of thought." 

In looking back over our lives, we often' see that 
what seemed at the time the worst hours and the most 
hopeless in their wretchedness were in reality the best 
of all ! They developed powers within us that had 
heretofore slept; developed energies of which we had 
never dreamed. —James Freeman Clarke. 

Let your task be to render yourself worthy of love, 
and this even more for your own happiness than for 
that of another's. —Maurice Materlinck. 

There is great danger in constant dissatisfaction. 
Sooner or later, it will involve the health, or finances, 
or both, for it destroys the mental balance, and impairs 
the judgment. —C. B. Newcomb. 

"Don't nurse opportunity too long — take it into 
active partnership with you at once, lest it leave you 
for other company." 



Thoughts 117 



We just shake hands at meeting 

With many that come nigh ; 
We nod the head in greeting 

To many that go by, — 
But welcome through the gateway 

Our few old friends and true ; 
Then hearts leap up, and straightway 

There's open house for you, 
Old Friends, there's open house for you! 

The surface will be sparkling, 

Let but a sunbeam shine ; 
Yet in the deep lies darkling, 

The true life of the wine ! 
The froth is for the many, 

The wine is for the few ; 
Unseen, untoucht of any, 

We keep the best for you, 
Old Friends, the very best for you ! 

The many cannot know us ; 

They only pace the strand, 
Where at our worst we show us — 
The waters thick with sand ! 
But out beyond the leaping 

Dim surge 'tis clear and blue ; 
And there, Old Friends, we are keeping 

A sacred calm for you, 
Old Friends, a waiting calm for you. 

— Gerald Massey. 



n8 Thoughts 

It is my custom every night to run all over the 
words and actions of the past day; for why should I 
fear the sight of my errors when I can admonish and 
forgive myself? I was a little too hot in such a dis- 
pute : my opinion might have been as well spared, for 
it gave offense, and did no good at all. The thing was 
true ; but all truths are not to be spoken at all times. 

— Seneca. 

Also, I think that good must come of good, 
And ill of evil — surely — unto all — 
In every place and time — seeing sweet fruit 
Groweth from wholesome roots, and bitter things 
From poison stocks ; yea, seeing, too, how spite 
Breeds hate, and kindness, friends, and patience, peace. 

— Edwin Arnold. 

If we would listen intently, we might hear the divine 
voice within, assuring us that God is our life; that 
spirit is the only substantial entity and that love is the 
only law. —Henry Wood. 

Let us grow out of the idea that because we do 
some one a favor or render him a service, that he is 
thereby under some transcendent obligation to us. 
Let us recognize the truth — that it is we who are 
obliged if he will permit us to do him a favor. 

— Lilian Whiting. 



Thoughts 119 



Let us have faith that right makes might, and in 
that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we 
understand it. —Abraham Lincoln. 

Compass happiness, since happiness alone is victory. 
What you make of life, it will be to you. Take it up 
bravely, bear it on joyfully, lay it down triumphantly. 

— Gail Hamilton. 

Those things that are not practicable are not de- 
sirable. There is nothing that God has judged good 
for us that He has not given us the means to accom- 
plish. If we cry like children for the moon, like chil- 
dren we must cry on. —Burke. 

I feel the earth move sunward, 
I join the great march onward, 
And take by faith while living 
My freehold of thanksgiving. 

— John G. Whit tier. 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me 

'Tis only noble to be good ; 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. 

— Tennyson. 



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1 20 Thoughts 

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve ; hast thou not two 
eyes of thine own? — Carlyle. 

Do your best loyally and cheerfully, and suffer 
yourself to feel no anxiety nor fear. Your times are 
in God's hands. He has assigned you your place : He 
will direct your paths ; He will accept your efforts, if 
they be faithful. —Canon Farrar. 

When we cease to look upon any experience as too 
hard, we have made a decided step in wise adjustment 
to life. —H. W. Dresser. 

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed 
thoughts, but as soon as we have learned what to do 
with them, they become our own. —Emerson. 

The choir invisible ! Who are members of it, if not 
all those who in any way are doing the day's work, 
whatever it may be, as well as they know how; who 
are trying to make the world happier and pleasanter 
for those to whom their lives are naturally bound. 

— John White Chadwick. 

"By thine own soul's law learn to live, 
And if men scorn thee, take no care, 
And if men hate thee, take no heed, 
But sing thy song and do thy deed, 

And hope thy hope, and pray thy prayer." 



Thoughts 121 



There are some who want to get rid of their past, 
who, if they could, would begin all over again, . . . 
but you must learn, you must let God teach you, that 
the only way to get rid of your past is to get a future 
out of it. —Phillips Brooks. 

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sink- 
ing, if your own tongue must praise you. 

— Sir Matthew Hale. 

Because a man has shop to mind 

In time and place, since flesh must live, 

Needs spirit lack all life behind, 

All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, 

All loves except what trade can give? 

— Browning. 

There is no beautifier in form or behavior like the 
wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. 

— Emerson. 

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a 
great ship. —Benjamin Franklin. 

First make your arrangements, then trust in heaven ; 
and in no case worry. —Prof. Jowett. 



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122 Thoughts 

"Hold thy peace or say something better than si- 
lence." 

"Friend, all the world's a little queer, excepting thee 
and me; and sometimes I think thee a trifle peculiar." 

We live by our enthusiasm and our exaltations. Our 
sympathies are our strength. Our interests are our 
magnetisms, and are transmuted into our working 
capital. —Lilian Whiting. 

His heart was as great as the world, but there was 
no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. 

(Said of Lincoln.) -—Emerson. 

He is all truth in his words, and justice in his ac- 
tions, and if the whole world should disbelieve his in- 
tegrity, dispute his character, and question his happi- 
ness, he would neither take it ill in the least, nor turn 
aside from that path that leads to the aim of life, 
toward which he must move, pure, calm, well pre- 
pared — and with perfect resignation in his fate. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations, 
cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and 
morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good 
policy does not equally enjoin it? —Washington. 



Thoughts 123 

It is well to believe that there needs but a little 
more thought, a little more courage, more love, more 
devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to 
fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth. 

— Maurice Materlinck. 

The mind has a thousand eyes, 

And the heart but one ; 
Yet the light of a whole life dies 

When love is done. 

— F. W. Bourdillon. 

A man's home is his castle, but it ought to be more. 
It ought to be his home. That it is his castle is his 
right by law. To make it a real home depends upon 
himself. — Sir J. Lubbock. 

We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost 
everything speed towards it. —W. E. Channing. 

"It was the heaven within her that made a heaven 
without." 

He who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life 
service, helpfulness and kindness to others, finds his 
whole nature growing and expanding, himself becom- 
ing large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, 
joyous and happy; his life becoming rich and beau- 
tiful. —Ralph Waldo Trine. 



124 Thoughts 



"Talk happiness ; the world is sad enough 
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough : 
Look for the places that are smooth and clear, 
And speak of these to rest the weary ear 
Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain 
Of human discontent and grief and pain." 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget, — lest we forget ! —Kipling. 

This world's no blot for us 
Nor blank ; it means intensely and means good : 
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. 

— Robert Browning. 

The test of friendship is its fidelity when every 
charm of fortune and environment has been swept 
away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains ; 
if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companion- 
ship still survives, in such an hour, the fellowship be- 
comes a beautiful prophecy of immortality. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

We lose vigor through thinking continually the same 
set of thoughts. New thought is new life. 

— Prentice Mulford. 



Thoughts 125 

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own 
littleness than disbelief in great men. —Carlyle. 

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if 
food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must 
toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through 
toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When 
one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. 

— Ruskin. 

Nay, never falter ; no great deed is done 
By falterers who ask for certainty. 

No good is certain but the steadfast mind, 
The undivided will to seek the good. 

— George Eliot. 

There is a class of people who are comparatively 
valueless to the world because of a certain morbidness 
which they are pleased to call sensitiveness. In real- 
ity it is nothing of the sort. It is self-love — a refined 
variety of it, to be sure, but none the less is it the re- 
sult of a selfishly subjective state, in which they look in 
and not out, and down and not up, and fail to lend a 
hand — not from any real unwillingness, but because 
they are looking in, and do not see the opportunity. 

— Lilian Whiting. 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the bur- 
den of it to anyone else. —Dickens. 



126 Thoughts 



We always weaken when we exaggerate. 

— La Harpe. 

It is not poverty that helps a man ; it is the effort by 
which he throws off the yoke of poverty that enlarges 
the powers. —David Starr Jordan. 

"Of all bad habits, despondency is among the least 
respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as 
the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the 
wickedness and hopelessness of the world." 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass 
under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the. 
murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across 
the sky, is by no means waste of time. 

— Sir J. Lubbock. 

There is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that 
keeps one's heart young like sympathy, like giving 
one's self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or 
cause. —John Burroughs. 

A truly concentrated life promptly rejects ever^ 
thought of past or future that would disturb its confi- 
dence in the present hour. —C. B. Newcomb. 



Thoughts 127 

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage 
until he has been so trained by work that he makes 
his freedom more fruitful than his toil. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

After every storm the sun will smile; for every 
problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible 
duty is to be of good cheer. —Wm. R. Alger. 

Be sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do 
not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually 
wear gray-brown glasses. —Chas. H. Eliot. 

Whenever Conscience calls a halt, it is no place for 
Reason to debate the question. The way ahead is no 
thoroughfare. —Charles Egbert Craddock. 

Give what you have. To some one it may be better 
than you dare to think. —Longfellow. 

"If bitterness has crept into the heart in the fric- 
tion of the busy day's unguarded moments, be sure it 
steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God's in- 
terval for peace-making." 

It is surely better to pardon too much than to con- 
demn too much. —Geo. Eliot. 



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128 Thoughts 



"The initial need to enjoyment is not many posses- 
sions, but much appreciation." 

Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading 
elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways 
to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit 
always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and 
irritability, — that is an idea as noble as it is difficult. 
— Edward Howard Griggs. 

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their 
tremendous difficulties. —Spurgeon. 

"No matter how narrow your limits 
Go forth and make them broad : 
You are every one the daughter or son, 
Crown prince or princess of God." 

The best help is not to bear the troubles of others 
for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy 
to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the 
difficulties of life bravely. —Lubbock. 

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for 
certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask 
yourself, "Why should I tell it?" —Lavater. 




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RE AT powers and natural gifts do not 
bring privileges to their possessors so 
much as they bring duties. 
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Thoughts 129 



Let us then labor for an inward stillness, 
An inward stillness and an inward healing; 
That perfect silence where the lips and heart 
Are still, arid we no longer entertain 
Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, 
But God alone speaks in us, and we wait 
In singleness of heart that we may know 
His will, and in the silence of our own spirits, 
That we may do His will, and that only. 

— Longfellow. 



130 Thoughts 

Many persons might have attained to wisdom had 
they not assumed that they already possessed it. 

— Seneca. 

Stagnation is death, whether it be physical or spir- 
itual. A pool cannot be pure and 'sweet unless there 
is an outlet as well as an inlet. Unless you use for the 
service of others what God has already given you, you 
will find it a long weary road to Spiritual Understand- 
ing. — H. Emilie Cody. 

Make friends with your trials, as though you were 
always to live together, and you will find that when 
you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, 
God will take thought for you. —Frances de Sales. 

"God will never leave you without light enough to 
take one step. Don't stop walking till the light gives 
out." 

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand mo- 
ments that signify. Let the measure of time be spir- 
itual, not mechanical. —Emerson. 

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he ad- 
vances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A 
man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant re- 
pair. — Dr. Johnson. 



Thoughts 131 

"Happiness does not depend on money or leisure, or 
society, or even on health ; it depends on our relation 
to those we love." 

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine 
and coming out with empty hands. 

— Japanese Proverb. 

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things 
of difficulty; for if you observe — the left hand for 
want of practice is insignificant — and not adapted to 
general business ; yet it holds the bridle better than the 
right — from constant use. —Pliny. 

Almost every moment of the day the eye is receiv- 
ing impressions from outward objects, and instantly 
communicating these impressions to the soul. Thus 
the soul receives every day thousands of impressions, 
good or bad, according to the character of the objects 
presented. —Cardinal Gibbons. 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in 
rising every time we fall. —Confucius. 

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or 
unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own 
activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within 
himself an evil he can hope to overcome. 

— Char,. H. Eliot. 



132 Thoughts 

It is as amazing as it is sad, that we go about so 
largely burdening ourselves with strivings that are of 
no consequence, and miss the gladness and exhilara- 
tion of living. No life is successful until it is radiant. 
The King of Glory is always ready to come in. Why 
do we bar the way? We cannot all live in palaces; 
but we can all live in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the 
material luxuries of the one pale before the glow and 
thrill and exaltation of the other. 

— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

"As I walked by myself 

I talked with myself, 
And myself said this unto me : 

Make friends with thyself, 
Be true to thyself, 

And thyself thy good angel shall be." 

The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health 
and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals 
of people depend mainly upon the food they eat and 
the houses they live in. The time has come when we 
must have a science of domestic economy, and it must 
be worked out in the homes of our educated women. 
A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and phy- 
sics must be applied to the daily living. 

— Ellen Richards. 



Thoughts 133 

"Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. 

— Browning. 

Contact with nobler natures arouses the feelings of 
unused power and quickens the consciousness of re- 
sponsibility. —Cation Wcstcott. 

Diligence is the mother of good luck. 

— Benjamin Franklin. 

"Diving and finding no pearl in the sea, ^ 
Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee." 

A partnership with God is motherhood, 
What strength, what purity, what self-control, 
What love, what wisdom should belong to her 
Who helps God fashion an immortal soul ! 

— Mary Wood Allen. 

No one but yourself can make your life beautiful, 
no one can be pure, honorable and loving for you. 

— J. R. Miller. 

Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all 

locks, 
Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must, — and I do it. 

— A. H. Clough. 



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134 Thoughts 



I beg you take courage: the brave soul can mend 
even disaster. —Catherine of Russia: 

Opinions are often the very death of love. Love 
aright and you will come to think aright; and those 
who think aright, must think the same. In the mean- 
time, it matters nothing. The thing that does matter 
is that whereto we have attained. — Geo. Macdonald. 

Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful 
if man's destiny were not equally so ? —Thoreau. 

Some men move through life as a band of music 
moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every 
side through the air, to every one far and near that 
can listen. —Henry Ward Beecher. 

Man is his own star ; and the soul that can 
Render an honest and an upright man, 
Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; 
Nothing to him falls early or too late. 
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

— Beaumont and Fletcher. 



Thoughts 135 



The nearer you come into relation with a person, the 
more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 

— Holmes. 

What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's 
emphasis is always right. —Emerson. 

Courage, Sir, 
That makes a man or woman look their goodliest. 

— Tennyson. 

For a woman to be wise and at the same time wom- 
anly, is to wield a tremendous influence which may be 
felt for good in the lives of generations to come. 

— David Starr Jordan. 

We never know for what God is preparing us in his 
schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the 
hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the 
present place, whatever that may be. 

— Lyman Abbott. 

There is no unbelief : 
Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, 
And waits to see it push away the clod, 

Trusts in God, —Bulwer-Lytton. 



136 Thoughts 



The world is such stuff as ideas are made of. 
Thought possesses all things. But the world is not 
unreal. It extends infinitely beyond our private con- 
sciousness, because it is the world of a universal mind. 

— Josiah Royce. 



Thoughts 137 



In Life's small things be resolute and great 

To keep thy muscles trained ; know'st thou when fate 

Thy measure takes ? or when she'll, say to thee, 

"I find thee worthy, do this thing for me !" 

— Emerson. 

To hold one's self in readiness for opportunity, to 
keep the serene, confident, hopeful, and joyful energy 
of mind, is to magnetize it, and draw privileges and 
power toward one. The concern is not whether op- 
portunity will present itself, but as to whether we will 
be ready for the opportunity. It comes not to doubt 
and denial and disbelief. It comes to sunny expecta- 
tion, eager purpose, and to noble and generous aspira- 
tion. —Lilian Whiting. 

Let not soft slumber close your eyes, 
Before you've recollected thrice 
The train of action through the day. 
Where have my feet chose out their way? 
What have I learnt, where'er I've been, 
From all I've heard, from all I've seen? 
What know I more that's worth the knowing ? # 
What have I done that's worth the doing ? 

— Isaac Watts. 



138 Thoughts 

"Use your gentlest voice at home; watch it day by 
day as a pearl of great price. A kind word is a joy, 
like a lark's song to the home hearth. Train is to 
sweet tunes now, and it will keep in tune through life." 

If we neglect to exercise any talent, power, or qual- 
ity, it soon falls away from us. —Henry Wood. 

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its 
daily combat. — Anna Robertson Brown. 

With aching hands and bleeding feet 

We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; 

We bear the burden and the heat of the long day 

And wish 'twere done. 

Not till the hour of light return 

All we have built do we discern. 

— Matthew Arnold. 

What a man is inwardly that to him will the world 
be outwardly: his mood affects the very "quality of 
the day." —Bradford Torrey. 

This is my youth — its hopes and dreams 
How strange and shadowy it all seems, 

After these many years ! 
Turning the pages idly, so, 
I look with smiles upon the woe, 

Upon the joy, with tears! —Aldrich. 



Thoughts 139 



It is in loving, not in being loved, 

The heart is blessed ; 
It is in giving, not in seeking gifts, 

We find our quest. 
Whatever be thy longing or thy need, 

That do thou give. 
So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed, 

Shalt truly live. —M. E. Russell 

The world is a looking glass, 
Wherein ourselves are shown, — 
Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer, 
Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear, — 
To every soul its own. 
We cannot change the world a whit, 
Only ourselves, who look in it. 

— Susan Coolidge. 

I would say to all : use your gentlest voice at home. 
Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price ; for it 
will be worth to you in days to come more than the 
best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a 
lark's song, to a hearth at home. It is a light that 
sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, 
and it will keep in tune through life. —Elihu Burritt. 



140 Thoughts 

In a world in which so many people wear the same 
clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, 
and say the same things, blessed are the individuals 
who are not lost in the mob, who have their own 
thoughts, and live their own lives. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

There are people who go about the world looking 
for slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they 
find them at every turn. — Drummond. 

He who has a thousand rooms sleeps in but one. 

— Japanese Proverb. 

Be happy, peaceful and satisfied just as you stand, 
having sufficient steadiness and independence to hold 
your own against the eddies and rapids about you. 
Apply practically that which you perceive spiritually. 

Accept your position as it is, and make the very best 
of it till it passes. Work with it, knowing that In- 
finite Wisdom is guiding you : and so cease all anxious 
thought, and rest. 

— God's Light as It Came to Me. 

Aspire, break bounds ! I say, 
Endeavor to be good, and better still, 
And best ! 

— Robert Browning. 



Thoughts 141 



CHRISTMAS DAY. 

Glory be to Thee in the highest heavens, O Thou 
God of our salvation. Thou hast proclaimed peace on 
earth and infinite good will to men. Unto us has been 
born a Guide and Deliverer. We hail the morning 
which commemorates His birth. We thank Thee that 
we may unite in the joyful commemoration which 
makes us one with millions of Thy children in all parts 
of the world. —Altar at Home. 

Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, 
and dare to think of your humanity as something so 
divinely precious that it is worthy of being an offering 
to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as 
complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then 
go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having 
been born anew into His divinity, as He was born into 
our humanity on Christmas Day. —Phillips Brooks. 



142 Thoughts 

Then wisely weigh 
Our sorrow with our comfort. 

— Shakespeare. 

There are two times in a man's life when he should 
not speculate ; when he can't afford it, and when he can. 

— Mark Twain. 

A man may get to his journey's end by the light of 
a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who 
travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape. 

— Hamilton Wright Mabie. 

As our ideal becomes loftier, so does it become more 
real ; and the nobler our soul, the less does it dread that 
it meet not a soul of its stature; for it must have 
drawn near unto truth, in whose neighborhood all 
things must take of its greatness. 

— Maurice Materlinck. 

The importance of a home it is impossible to exag- 
gerate. What is liberty without it? What is educa- 
tion in schools without it ? The greatness of no nation 
can be secure that is not based upon a pure home life. 

— Arnold Toynbee. 

Nay, if you come to that, best love of all 

Is God's ; then why not have God's love befall 

Myself? —Robert Browning. 



Thoughts 143 

Let nothing disturb thee, 

Nothing affright thee; 
All things are passing ; 

God never changeth ; 
Patient endurance 

Attaineth to all things; 
Who God possesseth 

In nothing is wanting ; 
Alone God sufficeth. 

— Santa Teresa's Book Mark. 

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful 
form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be 
the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to con- 
template the vision. —Plato. 

It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added 
beauty and distinction ; for the most persistent self has 
then worked its way to the surface, having modified 
the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its 
own likeness. —Mathilde Blind. 

"God never loved me in so sweet a way before, 
"Tis He alone who can such blessings send, 

And when His love would new expressions find, 

He brought thee to me, and He said, 
'Behold a friend.' " 



144 Thoughts 



"We can never see the sun rise by looking into the 
west." 

Give not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee 
a prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in 
the scabbard — thine: if vented, thy sword is in an- 
other's hand. —Quarks. 

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of 
wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; 
but it is the light by which the world looks for and 
finds merit. — Lowell. 

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the 
best token we have of a man's success in life. 

— Edward Everett Hale. 

"It was only a glad 'Good-morning' 
As she passed along the way, 
But it spread the morning's glory 
Over the live long day." 

There is only one way to have good servants; that 
is, to be worthy of being well served. Only let it be 
remembered that "kindness" means, as with your child, 
so with your servant, not indulgence, but care. 

— Ruskin. 




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to go out of himself and to come into 
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Thoughts 145 

"Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us, 
Lies the fair country where our hearts abide : 
And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us, 
Than these few words, 'I shall be satisfied.' " 

"Though there come a million, 
Wise Saadi dwells alone." 
But it is a question as to whether Saadi is wise when 
he prefers to dwell alone. Living on earth, is it not 
one's duty to hear many voices that ring in its air? 
Is one's life for mere acquirement, or to show results 
and flower into influence and deed? 

— The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 

The mountain top must be reached no matter how 
many times we fall in reaching it. The fall is not 
counted, it does not register; the picking up and go- 
ing on counts in life. --Flora Howard. 

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or 
opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. 

—Chas. W. Wendte. 

Be what thou seemest ; live thy creed, 
Hold up to earth the touch divine ; 
Be what thou prayest to be made ; 
Let the great Master's steps be thine. 

— Horatio Bonar. 



146 Thoughts 

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend 
a little less, to make upon the whole, a family happier 
for his presence, to renounce when that shall be neces- 
sary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, 
but these without capitulation; above all, on the same 
condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task 
for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Who is the honest man ? 
He that doth still and strongly good pursue, 
To God, his neighbor and himself most true, 

Whom neither force nor fawning can 
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. 

— George Herbert. 

Take the Sunday with you through the week, 
And sweeten with it all the other days. 

— Longfellow. 

God will not mock the hope he giveth, 
No love he prompts shall vainly plead. 

—Whittier. 

God's goodness hath been great to thee ; 
Let never day or night unhallowed pass, 
But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

— Shakespeare. 



Thoughts 147 



Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you 

For every day . . . 
Be good . . . 

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever 

One grand sweet song. 

— Charles Kingsley. 



INDEX TO POEMS 

PAGE 

A New Year Motto /. M. C. Bouchard. 28 

Come Up Higher James G. Clarke 9 

Good in Thought. James Russell Lowell. 34 

Infinite Love 37 

My Soul and I Laura Barker. 82 

Old Friends Gerald Massey. 117 

Opportunity James Russell Lowell. 113 

Prayer Canon Farrar 17 

Santa Teresa's Book Mark 143 

The Mountain and the Squirrel Ralph Waldo 

Emerson 75 

To Know and Do His Will. .Henry Wadsworth Long- 
fellow 129 

Truth by Majority Edward Rowland Sill. 43 

Wouldst Shape a Noble Life ? Goethe. 67 

You Can Never Tell What Your Thoughts 
Will Do 11 



INDEX TO AUTHORS 

PAGE 

Abbott, Dr. Lyman 64 

Alcott, Louise May 88 

Aldrich, Thomas B 38, 138 

Alger, Wm. R 127 

Allen, James Lane ,. .48, 62 

Allen, Mary Wood 133 

Allison, Francis J 39 

Amiel 19, 64, 99 

Arabian, Proverb 45 

Arabic, From the 41 

Arnold, Edwin 118 

Arnold, Matthew 138 

Auerbach, Berthold 59 

Augustine, St 25 

Aurelius, Marcus 38, 41, 62, 74, 122 

Bacon, Francis 60 

Balzac, Honore de 40 

Barker, Laura 82 

Barnum, P. T 109 

Barrows, Rev. S. J 19 

Beaumont and Fletcher 134 

Beecher, Henry Ward 14, 25, 59, 85, 134 

Black, H , , 76 

Blinde, Mathilde 143 

Bolton, Sarah K 24 

Bonar, Horatio 145 

Bourdillon, F. U 123 



Index to Authors 151 



Bovee 5 

Brooks, Phillips 24, 53, 59, 78, 91, 108, no, 121, 141 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 24, 39, 69, 76, 91, ill, 121 

Browning, Robert 19, 48, 55, 73, 87, 89, 93, 101, 112 

124, 142 

Bulwer, Lord Lytton 99, 135 

Burdette, Robert J 36 

Burke, Edmund 119 

Burritt, Elihu 139 

Burroughs, John 126 

Burton, Richard 69 

Bushnell, Horace 20, 86 

Buxton, Charles 27 f 60, 64 

Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord 16, 66 

Cady, H. Emilie 52, 76, 94, 130 

Caesar 44 

Carlton, Will 14 

Carlyle, Thomas 12, 44, 51, 68, 81, 103, 120, 125 

Caruth, M. H 65 

Cary, Alice 86, 92 

Catherine of Russia 134 

Cato 33 

Cecil, Robert 10 

Cervantes, Saavedra, de 44 

Chadwick, John White 120 

Channing, W. E 30, 38, 88, 113, 109, 123 

Chap-Book 42 

Chapin, Henry D 29 

Cheney, John Vance 79 

Chesterfield, Philip D. S 51 

Child, Lydia Maria 97 

Chinese Proverb 68 

Clarke, Adam 47 



152 Index to Authors 

PAGE 

Clarke, James Freeman 116 

Clarke, James G 9 

Cleveland, Rose E 64 

Clough, A. H 133 

Coleridge, Samuel T 33 

Collyer, Robert 96 

Colton, Walter _. 80 

Confucius 30, 62, 131 

Cooke, Rose Terry 46 

Coolidge, Susan 139 

Cowper, William ., t . . 104 

Craddock, Charles Egbert 127 

Cuyler, T. L 53 

Davy, Sir Humphrey 98 

Dickens, Charles 94, 125 

Dickinson, Emilie 100 

Dresser, H. W 76, 84, 85, 88, in, 115, 120 

Drew 93 

Drummond, Henry 77, 36, 66, 83, 88 

Dryden, John 112 

Eliot, Chas. H 127, 131 

Eliot, George 40, 73, 127, 101, 102, 112, 125 

Eliot, Henrietta R 23 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 15, 19, 22, 24, 29, 31, 32, 35, 38, 

44, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 57, 66, 70, 71, 87, 93, 97, 08, 108, 

109, 114, 115, 120, 121, 122, 130, 135, 137. 

Epictetus 27, 61, 81 

Ewing, Juliana H 50 

Farrar, Canon 94, 120 

Fletcher, Horace 15, 68 

Foss, S. W 105 



Index to Authors 153 

PAGE 

Franklin, Benjamin 94, 121, 133 

French, R. C... 81 

Frothingham, N. L 66 

Furness 54 

Gannett, W. C 15, 103 

Gerhardt, Paulus 84 

Gibbon, Edward 22 

Gibbons, Cardinal : 131 

Gladstone, William Ewart 10 

Gleim, J. W. L 73 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 67, 78, 85 

Goethe's Mother 3c 

Griggs, Edward Howard 12S 

Guerin, de, Eugenie 8; 

Hale, Edward Everett 10, 33, 81, 144 

Hale, Sir Mathew 121 

Hall, E. B in 

Hamilton, A. E 51 

Hamilton, Gail 119 

Harrison, Elizabeth 85 

Hegeman, Mrs. A. B in 

Herbert, George 71, 91, 146 

Herbert, Lord Edward 53 

Herder, von, Johann Gottfried 40 

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 72, 101 

Hillel, Rabbi .' 27, 96 

Hillis, Newell Dwight 20, 33, 58, 46, 84 

Holland, J. G 41 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 10, 53, 92, 106, 135 

Hosmer, F. L 98 

Howard, Flora 145 

Howard, W. D 54 



154 Index to Authors 

PAGE 

Howe, Julia Ward 99 

Howells, William D 58, in 

Hughes, Thomas 106 

Hugo, Victor 59, 68 

Huntington, J. D 27 

Jameson, Anna 54 

Japanese Proverb 27, 131, 140 

Johnson, Samuel 78, 80, 130 

Jones, Jenkin Lloyd 12, 87 

Jordan, David Starr 13, 16, 36, 22, 25, 31, 59, 7^ 86, 102, 

104, 126, 135. 
Jowett, Benjamin 98, 121 

Keary, Annie 97 

Kelty IS 

Kempis, a, Thomas 114 

King, Thomas Starr 35 

Kingsley, Charles 50, 90, 147 

Kipling, Rudyard 124 

La Horke 126 

Lavater, J. K 101, 128 

Le Conte, Joseph 57 

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 108 

Lewis, Gertrude 61 

Lincoln, Abraham « . .24, 119 

Livermore, Mrs. Mary A 18, 51 

Locke, John 51 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 10, 25, 56, 58, 64, 68, 70, 

99, 127, 129, 146. 

Lowell, James Russell 14, 19, 34, 47, 64, 73, 80, 83, 84, 

100, 113, 144. 

Lubbock, Sir John 50, 64, 100, 123, 126, 128 



Index to Authors 155 



PAGE 

Lyon, Mary 60 

Mabie, Hamilton Wright 20, 31, 40, 61, 66, 71, 85, 87, 

108, 112, 114, 124, 127, 140, 142. 

Macdonald, Geo 79, 49, 66, 114, 134 

MacLaren, Ian 77, 90 

Mann, Horace 19, 83 

Markham, Edwin 65, 116 

Martineau. James 35, 83, 101, 102 

Mason, Caroline 60 

Massey, Gerald 117 

Materlinck, Maurice 14, 48, 61, 57, 116, 123, 142 

McLean, Rev. J. K 88, 96 

Meredith, George 64 

Merriam, Geo. S 79, 46 

Miller, J. R 62, 133 

Milton, John 114 

Montaigne, de, Michel Eyquem 44, 55, 80, 96 

More, Hannah 35 

Mulford, Prentice 36, 33, 124 

Muloch, Dinah Maria 31, 92 

Newcomb, Charles B 14, 22, 41, 53, 59, 62, 98, 116, 126 

Paulist Fathers 109 

Parker, Theodore 103, 113 

Peabody, Andrew Preston 70 

Plato 94, 115, 143 

Pliny 131 

Plutarch 88 

Purington, Lilian 71, 93 

Quarles, Francis 144 

Quincy, Josiah w 78 



156 Index to Authors 

PAGE 

Raleigh Sir Walter 96 

Ravignon, de 77 

Richards, Ellen 132 

Richardson, Ellen A , 104 

Richardson, Nellie M 115 

Riley, James Whitcomb 109 

Robertson, F. W ..29, 54 

Rollins, Alice W 31 

Rossetti, Christina 80 

Royce, Josiah 136 

Ruskin, John 7,. 22, 30, 36, 50, 58, 65, 71, 83, 88, 93, 94, 

115, 125, 144. 
Russell, M. E 139 

Sala, George Augustus 92 

Sales, de, St. Francis 81, 103, 130 

Savage, Minot T 90 

Scott, Sir Walter 35 

Seneca 81, 99, 106, 118, 130 

Shakespeare, William 10, 25, 38, 103, 104, 112, 142, 146 

Sidney, Sir Philip 106 

Sill, Edward Rowland 16, 46, 50, 77 

Smiles, Samuel 29, 66 

Smiley, J. B 22 

Smith, Mary Roberts 70 

Smith, Sidney 30 

Smith, William 20 

Spaulding, Bishop 102 

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon 125 

Stevenson, Robert Louis 146 

Story, William W 86 

Taylor, Jeremy 92, 114 

Tesla, Nikola 103 



Index to Authors 157 

PAGE 

Tennyson, Alfred 79, 119, 135 

Thaxter, Celia 31 

Thomas, H. W 35 

Thoreau, Henry D 12, 72, 22, 30, 40, 44, 47, 76, 93, 100, 

106, 134. 

Torrey, Bradford 138 

Toynbee, Arnold 142 

Trine, R. W 16, 74, 24, 38, 87, 123 

Twain, Mark 146 

Van Dyke, Henry 55 

Virgil 58 

Voltaire, de, Francois Marie Arouet 29 

Ward, Mrs. Thomas Humphrey 105 

Ware, J. F. W 31 

Warner, Anna 57 

Washington, George 47, 96, 122 

Watts, Isaac 137 

Wendte, Charles W 145 

Wescott, Canon 133 

Whiting, Lilian.. 29, 30, 33, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 71, 72, 73, 

74, 78, 84, 92, 1 oi, 104, 105, 106, 108, 112, 114, 118, 122, 

125, 132, 137, 145. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf 20, 146, 53, 119 

Wood, Henry 57, 68, 118, 138 

Worcester, Alice E 63 

Wordsworth, William 15, 59 

Yoga, Raja 68 

Young, Edward 108 

Zimmermann, von, Johann Georg 78 



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